The NHS Number
In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Julie Tindale, national clinical lead for the NHS Number Programme, discusses its use as a primary identifier.
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SHAs take on Choose and Book
Strategic health authorities are to be given responsibility for sorting out technical problems with Choose and Book. NHS Connecting for Health told EHI Primary Care that it is devolving responsibility for technical assistance for Choose and Book to SHAs in 2009-10. A spokesperson said: “It is now considered an appropriate time – and a positive […]
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Follow my leader
In the latest feature from NHS Connecting for Health, Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Andrew Coley discuss the NHS Clinical Leaders Network.
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Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients
More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Making a Detailed Care Record a reality
Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care Detailed Care Record has been delivered.
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Worthing may dump Cerner Millennium
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust may ditch its brand new Cerner Millennium system in favour of a 20-year old legacy patient administration system.
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One third of PCT-practice agreements signed
Just over a third of primary care trust-practice agreements for the GP Systems of Choice framework had been signed by the end of the year, according to NHS Connecting for Health. Latest figures published by the agency show that 2,514 agreements had been signed by 19 December out of a possible 7,519. CfH had originally hoped that […]
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Auditors warn of NPfIT risk to southern SHAs
District auditors have warned NHS strategic health authorities in the south of England that the termination of Fujitsu’s contract as local service provider is a key risk for which they need to draw up contingency plans.
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DH invests £11m in dental IT training
The DH has announced it will give an extra £11m to ten of the 11 dental teaching hospitals in England, to help fund IT systems that will support the training of dental students.
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PCTs increase Choose and Book incentives
A London PCT is to pay its GPs £3.50 for every referral made under Choose and Book as trusts step up their efforts to improve take–up of Choose and Book.
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