Scottish MPs told criticism of GPASS ‘overblown’
Criticism of the Scottish GP computer system GPASS is “overblown” and the system will serve NHS Scotland well in the future, the chief executive of NHS National Services Scotland has told Scottish MPs. Stuart Bain told the Scottish Parliament’s Health Committee that there had been significant problems with GPASS which he said had been corrected […]
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Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH
Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction of the government’s vision of records available “wherever and whenever you need them”, it has emerged. An internal document produced by Connecting for Health reveals that although its proposed consent model would allow clinicians across […]
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Accenture’s NHS losses grow as NPfIT delays mount
Accenture, the leading management and technology consulting firm, announced a provision for a further $450 million of losses against its contract to deploy IT systems on behalf of the English NHS. The provision led to a sharp drop in quarterly profits. The additional $450m loss provision was linked to “significant delays by one of Accenture’s […]
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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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Second GP2GP record transfer pilot live
The second live trial of GP2GP has successfully completed the electronic transfer of a patient’s health care record from between practices running In Practice Systems primary care software, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. The patient health care record was electronically transferred from Cowes Health Centre to Grove House Surgery on the Isle of Wight, […]
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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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Missing link
Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH will have to make for its success.
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New GP choice proposals outlined
NHS Connecting for Health has outlined new proposals for delivering GP system choice based on a multi-step accreditation process. If adopted, the approach could potentially enable practices to buy systems either directly from suppliers or from their local service providers and still have them funded by the national programme. The proposals now being consulted on […]
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EPS pilot to restart after early glitch
One of England’s first electronic prescription service (EPS) pilots has been shut down for more than a month because of problems with the GP clinical system supplier’s software. Brigstock Pharmacy in Croydon, South London, began to receive prescriptions from its neighbouring GP practice in December but the pilot had to be halted because the practice’s […]
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Paper sole option for patients opting out of CRS
Patients who wish to opt out of having their information recorded on the NHS Care Records Service will only be able to do so if they are prepared to have paper records, according to a GP who has mounted a long running campaign against the NCRS. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Kingsbury, Warwickshire, says […]
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