NHS Direct to connect to Spine in 2008
NHS Direct is aiming to connect to the NHS Spine in 2008, in what should be a key step towards integrating the telephone and online advice service with the wider NHS. In an exclusive interview with E-health Insider, NHS Direct’s new chief executive Matt Tee said, “I’m hoping that we will connect to the Spine in […]
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NHS Direct on a mission to explain
Matt Tee has been CEO of NHS Direct for the past four months, he told us of his plans for the organisation.
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Spine to be shut for two day ‘refresh’
Connecting for Health (CfH) and BT have confirmed that the NHS Spine will be unavailable when it is taken down for a major upgrade from next Friday evening until Sunday morning (9-11 November). The Department of Health agency describes the refresh of software and hardware as ‘unusual’ and ‘unlikely’ to occur again in the future. A […]
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HealthSpace opening up to ‘advanced’ users
Registration has started for ‘advanced accounts’ offering patients the opportunity to view their Summary Care Records on HealthSpace, the NHS online personal health register. The service has opened up in tandem with the launch of the first Summary Care Records (SCRs). Nearly 50,000 of the summaries drawn from GP records in participating practices in Bolton […]
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Summary Care Record launched in Bolton
The first 48,500 summaries of patient records have been uploaded to the NHS Spine and out-of-hours staff in the Bolton pilot area will start using them over the next few weeks.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 12.10.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 12 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and events, implementations and appointments. Implementations Mayday uses single sign on from Enline Staff at the Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to sign on to systems just the once to use any network applications, after […]
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Birmingham GPs say patients barred for incomplete data
GPs in Birmingham claim that four primary care trusts are rejecting patient registrations if their demographic data is incomplete, as a result of the implementation of the NHS Care Records Service. The city’s local medical committee claim the action by Birmingham’s Shared Services Agency is putting vulnerable patients at risk and leaving practices without the […]
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Wigan Council adopts NHS number as unique ID
Wigan Council has become one of the first English councils to connect health to social care services information after linking to the NHS Spine and adopting the NHS number as its unique identifier for all clients. The project represents a significant improvement in patient safety, reducing data duplication, confusion cases and the fragmentation of care […]
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Cerner contract re-set puts focus on local needs
Cerner, the system supplier to the London and Southern Programme for IT, has suspended design work on the Millennium Release Two patient administration system, throwing deployment schedules into further doubt, E-Health Insider has learnt. Despite this, Cerner emphasised that work was still going ahead to implement Millennium into Southern trusts, but with much greater emphasis being placed […]
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Cegedim Rx pharmacy users get Spinal Tap
Integration specialist Quicksilva has announced that Cegedim Rx has installed its Spinal Tap software to enable pharmacies to communicate with the NHS Spine for the Electronic Prescriptions Service (EPS) project. Quicksilva says Spinal Tap will be hosted centrally and manage all upgrades which it says will reduce the amount of time and resources pharmacies spend […]
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