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Fair Deal on Broadband: BT responds

When E-Health Insider Primary Care launched Fair Deal on Broadband, we asked BT to give its perspective on the issues
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Southern SHAs to pilot greater local ownership of NPfIT

The three strategic health authorities in the south of England are piloting a new model of governance for the National
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Virtual Consulting Room successfully piloted

A Virtual Consulting Room offering healthcare professionals the facility to compare notes for medical consultations has been developed by staff
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NHS broadband leaves GPs in slow lane

Many GP practices are struggling with inadequate broadband speeds over N3 (the new NHS National Network) which are slowing down
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GPs threaten to block national patient database

One in two GPs have signalled their intention not to upload patients’ clinical details to the NHS Care Records Service
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Fair deal on NHS broadband

This week EHI Primary Care launches Fair Deal on NHS Broadband, a campaign to get GPs the fast broadband they
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Survey shows waning medical support for NPfIT

A picture of declining support among doctors for the National Programme for IT emerges from the latest Medix survey of
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UK practices best for IT to track medical errors

GPs in the UK are well ahead of colleagues around the world in having information systems which track medical errors,
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Handwritten paperwork “causes delays”

GPs spend too long filling in paperwork by hand, decreasing the amount of time they spend with patients, a survey
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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
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