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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IT templates for long term care plans
GPs and primary care staff will be expected to offer personalised care plans to almost 15m people living with a long term condition by 2010, according to latest guidance. An IT template, currently being piloted in Yorkshire for patients with diabetes, will be made available across England by the National Programme for IT in the […]
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Yorkshire Darzi centres use TPP
The first GP-led health centre is using TPP’s SystmOne and 20 more Darzi-style centres will go live with the clinical system, the company has announced. The Hillside Bridge Healthcare Centre in Bradford was opened by health secretary Alan Johnson and will be followed by 151 more open-access centres providing GP services 12 hours a day, […]
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That was the year in primary care IT
Here was the news for 2008
The past 12 months in primary care IT have seen the implementation of a scheme to secure GP IT system choice, increasing numbers of GP records transferred electronically and a new consent model introduced for the NHS Summary Care Record. Less successfully, 2008 also saw the disappearance of one local service provider, the government seemingly […]
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Eclipse is phased out
Torex, the owner of the Eclipse pharmacy system, has announced that it is to dicontinue the development of the product and cease drug data updates with immediate effect. Eclipse will no longer seek compliance for Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service. It was the second pharmacy system to achieve Release 1 accreditation in 2005, when it […]
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SystmOne pilots discharge summaries
Primary care IT supplier TPP has begun to pilot electronic discharge summaries between a GP practice and hospital in north Yorkshire. The East Parade Surgery in Harrogate is linking up with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and receiving electronic discharge summaries directly into SystmOne. NHS North Yorkshire and York said the practice has already started […]
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TPP reaches 10m patients and plans more
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced that more than ten million patients in England and Wales now have records held on its clinical computer system, SystmOne. The system, supplied to three national programme regions by local service provider CSC as an interim GP solution ahead of the arrival of Lorenzo, holds the records for […]
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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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Vision 4 looks further off
Delivery of the new clinical system Vision 4 from GP system supplier INPS could be moved back to 2011. The latest update on suppliers’ planned release dates for NHS Connecting for Health applications shows that Vision 4 is being replanned; although the company’s hosted version of its Vision 3 system has become the first hosted […]
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