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19 March 2007

GP representatives have voted against a boycott of Choose and Book and left it up to individual practices to decide

19 March 2007

With the government’s target for 90% of GP patient referrals to be done using the electronic Choose and Book system

19 March 2007

Connecting for Health has implemented GP2GP at 500 practices, almost a month before the planned deadline of 31 March 2007.

16 March 2007

Many primary care trusts are unable to measure their performance on out-of-hours care, partly because providers do not have the

15 March 2007

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at

14 March 2007

Primary care systems supplier EMIS is to become the first major clinical software vendor to the health service to incorporate

13 March 2007

A boycott of Choose and Book and non co-operation with the National Programme for IT are among the sanctions to

13 March 2007

A GP who has campaigned for patients to secure an opt-out from the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is claiming

12 March 2007

The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical

9 March 2007

Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council has found that people searching for health advice online prefer websites

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