PRIMIS+ moves to NHS Information Centre
Responsibility for the data quality organisation PRIMIS+ is to move from NHS Connecting for Health to the NHS Information Centre from the beginning of next year. PRIMIS+ has a four year contract with CfH to provide data quality and information management training and support to NHS staff, but the contract will be transferred to the […]
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Consent to view to get first test
Five GP practices in South West Essex are to become the first GPs in the country to implement the new ‘consent to view’ model for the Summary Care Record from this week.
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Five priorities for primary care IT
Grassroots GP Dr Neil Paul outlines the five priorities for NHS IT that have been identified in his area.
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iSoft system links EPS to SCR consent
A GP has claimed that iSoft’s Synergy system requires practices to get patients to give consent for their data to be uploaded to the Summary Care Record before they can use the Electronic Prescription Service. Dr Paul Cundy, a GP in Wimbledon and former chair of the joint IT committee of the British Medical Association […]
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IT costs factored into organ donor decision
The UK Organ Donation Taskforce this week came out against moving to a system of presumed consent for organ donation, arguing the costs could outweigh the benefits. The government has accepted its recommendations and instead launched a £4.5m campaign aimed at boosting the number of donations. However, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that he […]
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Patients to get Facebook-style Communicator
From March, patients will be able to carry out email consultations with GPs and other clinicians using a Facebook-style tool called Communicator. E-Health Insider has been told that Communicator will be launched as part of ambitious development plans for HealthSpace, the online organiser that gives patients access to their NHS Summary Care Record. Communicator will […]
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Harry Cayton to chair new patient data body
Harry Cayton OBE Harry Cayton OBE is to chair the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB), which becomes a statutory body later this month. Cayton was formerly the Chair of the Care Record Development Board (CRDB) – the predecessor of the NIGB – and chaired a ministerial task force on […]
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Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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CSW Health goes into administration
Health IT firm CSW Group Ltd, the owners of CSW Health, the Oxford-based specialist in XML-based software applications, has been placed into administration. The development leaves the future support of a system used by ten London primary care trusts to monitor child vaccinations unclear. It also appears to throw a spanner into plans to develop […]
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Gap between SCR concept and reality
The gap between the concept of the NHS Summary Care Record and the reality of implementing it will continue to be the focus of its evaluation programme. Patricia Greenhalgh, professor of primary care at University College London, which was commissioned to evaluate the SCR early adopters, told yesterday’s Healthcare Interoperability conference that the evaluation programme […]
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