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2 November 2006

Scottish ECS proving a success

Launched last summer the Scottish Emergency Care Summary is already proving a success making out-of-hours communications more efficient and effective.
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2 November 2006

Scotland mandates online patient data dictionary

A new clinical standards dictionary has been set up by NHS Scotland’s National Clinical Dataset Development Programme in an effort
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1 November 2006

Wales to tender for GP software at national standards

Wales is to go out to tender for GP software suppliers to comply with a national framework contract in a move
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1 November 2006

Newspaper prints “opt out” coupons for Spine

A national newspaper is advising readers how to opt out of the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR) on the national
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1 November 2006

NHS IT project aims for 120 major installs by April

Connecting for Health has published details of the main systems deployed by its three local service providers since June, outlining
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31 October 2006

NHS Scotland aims for electronic records from 2010

Delivering for Health, the board responsible for IT in NHS Scotland, says it will act on the key recommendations of
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31 October 2006

Apollo patient data mining software may breach DPA

A primary care IM&T adviser has recommended that GP practices do not use Department of Health supplied software to extract
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31 October 2006

Online care pathways for cancer developed

The NHS Cancer Services Collaborative ‘Improvement Partnership’ (CSCIP) has developed a national electronic information pathway designed to point cancer patients
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31 October 2006

Guidance on exception reporting published

The publication of exception reporting data for the Quality and Outcomes Framework will reveal total numbers of patients excepted for
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31 October 2006

GP practices to pilot updating details on nhs.uk

A pilot is underway to enable GP practices to update and maintain their own entries on www.nhs.uk – the official
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