Practices to test record transfers between systems
GP practices are likely to start testing of GP2GP record transfers between practices with different systems next month. Practices using INPS’s Vision system in Croydon have already installed version 1.1 of the GP2GP software and three EMIS practices in Croydon are in the process of receiving the update. Sean Riddell, managing director of EMIS, told […]
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Bury PCT starts using GP2GP to transfer records
Bury PCT has become the latest PCT using INPS Vision to begin using electronic GP2GP record transfers of patient records. The system was deployed simultaneously across all 33 practices in the PCT last last month. All use Vision and have Choose and Book and release one of the Electronic Prescription Service installed. Bury PCT had […]
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BT investigates slow connections for GPs
N3 provider BT has been investigating ways in which it might improve its service for GP practices using the EMIS computer system which have been struggling with slow connection speeds to their branch surgeries. EHI Primary Care understands that BT has been running experiments on alternative configurations and that solutions identified by that work will […]
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GPSoC delivery goes local in IT devolution
Local NHS organisations will be required to draw up plans showing how they will deliver GP Systems of Choice implementation under new arrangements announced today. Primary care trusts, as commissioners, will be required to have their own comprehensive IM&T plan and work with all providers in their local health communities to align IM&T plans to […]
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Information Centre to centralise social care records
The Information Centre is working towards producing a new information system for adult social care records, called the Adult Social Care Information Development Programme (ASCID). The aim of the programme is to make patient records of elderly patients more person-centred and flexible. The Information Centre is carrying out a major review of social care information […]
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Local sealed envelopes ‘probably safer’
A risk analysis conducted for NHS Connecting for Health has concluded that patient care would probably be safer using locally held sealed envelopes rather than storing them on the NHS data spine. The recommendations in the internal document, written by risk management company Det Norske Veritas and delivered to CfH in September, would seem to […]
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EMIS offers GP record transfer by CD
All EMIS LV practices in England can now transfer full patient records between practices using a CD, ahead of the arrival of the national GP2GP record transfer project. The project was started by St Albans & Harpenden, and Hertsmere PCTs, (now merged into part of West Herts PCT) which set up a system last March […]
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INPS surgeries to use iPlato text messaging
Primary care software supplier INPS has announced that surgeries across England that use its software will also have the opportunity to use iPlato’s patient alert text messaging system, thanks to a strategic alliance between the two companies. The Vision SMS system, which incorporates iPlato’s patient care text messaging system into INPS’s general practice software, is to be used by a number […]
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GPASS abandoned by Tayside and Grampian
NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian have confirmed that they will be abandoning the General Practice Administration System for Scotland (GPASS) in favour of INPS’s Vision system. The trusts decided to find alternative systems after becoming fed up with the problems practices were experiencing with GPASS. Critics say that GPASS has been plagued with problems since […]
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1000 Vision practices using Choose and Book
Primary Care IT specialists INPS are celebrating reaching 1000 GP practices using their Vision clinical system connected to Choose and Book to refer patients for specialist care. The INPS Vision system is used by 20 percent of English GP practices and includes software allowing GPs to use Choose and Book on the system, as opposed […]
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