GPs

Archive
26 May 2009

Summary Care Record use jumps in Bolton

Use of the Summary Care Record by the out-of-hours service in Bolton has risen from 200 accesses a month to
Read More
26 May 2009

St Helens gets scan-on-demand EPR

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has begun roll-out of a electronic patient record based on a scan-on-demand
Read More
22 May 2009

Nicholson warns of ‘unprecedented’ savings

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned the NHS that it may need to make “unprecedented” levels of savings from
Read More
22 May 2009

GPs warned on honesty of claims

GP practices have been warned to take care when making claims under the Quality and Outcomes Framework given the current row over
Read More
20 May 2009

Government’s CIO praises NHS progress

The government’s chief information officer has praised IT systems in the health sector but has highlighted the need to “drive
Read More
20 May 2009

QResearch pioneer honoured

A GP who set up the QResearch database, using anonymised data from around 10m patients registered at EMIS practices, has
Read More
19 May 2009

Call centres face 084 number inquiry

Call centres run by central government have been given until the end of June to submit information on their use
Read More
19 May 2009

BMA works with NHS Choices on GP ratings

The BMA’s GP committee has confirmed it is working with NHS Choices to enable patients to rate and review their
Read More
19 May 2009

Cost of access to old records agreed

NHS Connecting for Health has set out the options GP practices have to access their old records if they switch to
Read More
18 May 2009

Professionals start using ContactPoint

Up to 800 health, education and social care professionals are to start using the national children’s database ContactPoint from today,
Read More