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CfH could face a £10 billion funding gap

 A new consultation paper produced by an influential health computing industry group has raised concerns about the medium-term funding of
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Wales publishes QoF scores

Wales has become the last of the four UK countries to publish Quality and Outcomes Framework results for its practices.
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New analysis tool helps pinpoint deprivation

Huddersfield’s primary care trusts and global information solutions specialists, Experian, this week claimed a health informatics ‘first’ with the publication
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A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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EMIS offers washable keyboards with systems

  Primary care systems supplier, EMIS, has started to offer washable computer keyboards as standard with its systems. The move
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NI practice QoF scores published

Practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcome Framework in Northern Ireland have now been published and show GPs
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University College London NHS Trust goes wireless

University College London NHS Foundation Trust has completed installation of an advanced wireless network, thought to be the largest yet
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Patients check records for errors

A practical exercise to find out how many errors patients can find in their records and how many entries they
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CfH begins NHS information blitz

A marathon campaign to tell the nation about the NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS) gets underway today with a
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