Choice? What choice?
Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from. Fiona Barr investigates.
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Choice proves tough for some practices in Cambridge
Two primary care trusts have told practices in need of hardware upgrades to their IT systems that they will need to move to the local service provider’s GP solution or live with “suboptimal performance” from existing GP systems. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs wrote to practices last week stating that the only option the […]
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Meet the suppliers: TPP
In the first article of a series, EHI Primary Care travels to Leeds to spend a day with TPP, the alternative primary care supplier for the North-east and Eastern cluster.
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GP system choice being blocked and mocked
A Hertfordshire IT manager reported that he was laughed at when he told his local service provider (LSP) that he wanted to use an EMIS computer system rather than the two systems offered routinely in his area. The position apparently flies in the face of a pledge in March from John Hutton, then health minister, […]
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