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5 December 2006

A survey of over 200 GPs has found that two thirds feel that specialist search engines such as SearchMedica can be

4 December 2006

The Department of Health has rejected patients’ requests to stop their information being uploaded to the NHS data spine. On

4 December 2006

Fresh guidance on practice-based commissioning sets out the minimum data requirements that primary care trusts (PCTs) are expected to provide

1 December 2006

England’s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has written to all GPs asking them to forward to the Department of

30 November 2006

A long-awaited independent report on GPASS ‘must signal the end of the line’ for Scotland’s most commonly used GP system,

29 November 2006

Map of Medicine are to pilot a PDA-based version of their evidence-based clinical pathway information system for the first time

28 November 2006

A risk analysis conducted for NHS Connecting for Health has concluded that patient care would probably be safer using locally

28 November 2006

GP practices’ concerns about N3 are to be discussed at the next meeting of NHS Connecting for Health’s GP Pan

28 November 2006

An inquiry into the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be held by the House of Commons’ health select committee,

28 November 2006

All EMIS LV practices in England can now transfer full patient records between practices using a CD, ahead of the

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