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21 February 2006

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
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20 February 2006

DES payments to GPs for IM&T work unveiled

Preparation for the National Programme for IT could earn practices £1.33 per patient next year under the new payment scheme for
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20 February 2006

New C+B incentives from April announced

Practices will be able to earn approximately £2000 per partner if they can meet government targets on choice and booking
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20 February 2006

MHRA implements adverse drug reaction software

The government’s medicines safety agency has implemented new software to improve management of adverse drug reaction (ADR) data reported by
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17 February 2006

Incentives fail to convince GPs on Choose and Book

Only one in three GPs believe the new contract payment for Choose and Book to be introduced from April will
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16 February 2006

Missing link

Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH
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16 February 2006

Poll shows strong clinical support for IT modernisation

An online poll carried out by Doctors.net.uk found that has found that 80% of doctors say they support moves to
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16 February 2006

ECGs by phone for GPs in the north west

GPs in Lancashire and Cumbria SHA have started using a telephone-based clinical monitoring service, using small devices that take ECGs
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14 February 2006

GP-to-GP record transfer roll-out slows

The second pilot site for GP2GP transfer of patient records is due to get underway next week but rollout of
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14 February 2006

CfH says Choose and Book fixes imminent

Connecting for Health says it has fixed or will ‘very shortly’ correct some of the problems in the Choose and
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