Data accreditation completed for 800 practices
Just over 800 GP practices have now had their data accredited as part of the directed enhanced service for IM&T. Data accreditation in preparation for uploading summary records to the spine is one of four elements in the DES which was extended for 12 months to March 2009 as part of this year’s GP contract […]
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GP2GP hits 100,000 transfers
Connecting for Health has announced that GP2GP has now completed over 100,000 electronic health record transfers. To date, 149 primary care trusts – more than 4,000 practices – are using the clinical systems EMIS LV 5.2 and INPS Vision 3 to transfer records between GP practices. GP2GP enables patients’ electronic health records to be transferred […]
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GP contract to continue IT DES payments
GP practices will be able to continue to claim for work done under the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES) for another 12 months, as part of the GP contract settlement for 2008/9. The agreement to extend the DES until the end of March 2009 means practices already registered to take part in the scheme will be […]
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Moving to hosted systems
Disagreement over extended access could impact the speed of movement to hosted systems. Fiona Barr reports.
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A work in progress
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr looks back on the developments during 2007 and shape of things to come in 2008.
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Verbal agreement on IM&T DES payments
GP representatives say they have verbal agreement that GP practices can still be paid for IM&T DES work after the scheme ends next March. The two-year DES ends on 31 March 2008 and in theory GPs who have not completed the work by that date would not be able to claim payment. However the BMA’s […]
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GP2GP transfer software installed in 2000 practices
Connecting for Health has announced that it has rolled out GP2GP record transfer software to its two thousandth practice and transferred more than 25,000 records using the software. The two milestones for the project mean that nearly one in four English GP practices now has access to GP2GP. So far the rollout only involves practices […]
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Suppliers set routes on the GPSoC roadmap
TPP’s SystmOne and the wide area network version of EMIS PCS should meet Connecting for Health standards for hosted systems by the end of the year, according to their suppliers. The eight suppliers that have been accepted onto the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) framework have published details of when they expect to achieve the […]
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Mass GP2GP roll-out to begin end July
GP2GP electronic record transfer is expected to be able to be rolled out to more than 70% of GP practices from the end of this month. Connecting for Health (CfH) has told EHI Primary Care that it expects to give GP system suppliers EMIS and INPS authority to rollout version 1.1 of GP2GP record transfer […]
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Hosted INPS and iSoft accredited by CfH
Two hosted GP practice systems have so far received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health. INPS Vision 3 Enterprise edition, as offered by the Capital Care Alliance in the London cluster and iSoft Synergy Enterprise, as offered by Accenture in the North Eastern and Eastern clusters, have met CfH’s requirements for hosted systems under the […]
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