7 January 2013

Reforms will weaken IT services – survey

Opinion is divided on the impact of the latest NHS reorganisation on local IT and information services, but many respondents
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21 December 2012

Morale of IT staff hits new low

The morale of NHS IT staff working in primary care has declined greatly as job losses and job changes have
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3 October 2012

DH sets out public health data tasks

The Department of Health has set out the tasks local authorities need to address to meet their new obligations on
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7 September 2012

CCGs ‘being bypassed’ warning issued

Clinical commissioning groups are being bypassed as an “overwhelming” number of rules and regulations about the new NHS are produced,
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29 August 2012

NHS CB to bill CSUs for hosting services

Commissioning support units are likely to have to pay the NHS Commissioning Board less than the 50p per head for
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13 August 2012

Commissioners urged to demand A&E data

The College of Emergency Medicine wants clinical commissioners to use their buying power to improve the quality of discharge summaries
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1 August 2012

Study raises issues with GP2GP records

GP practices have reported that a considerably higher proportion of their own records are accurate, complete and useful than those
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30 July 2012

Hawking calls for action on A&E info

A GP is to report her concerns about the IT used to generate reports for GPs on accident and emergency
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16 July 2012

NHS commissioning to shed 20,000 jobs

As many as 20,000 NHS staff could be left without jobs when the new commissioning structure is complete, NHS Commissioning
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4 July 2012

Leeds hospital pharmacists access SCR

One of the largest hospitals in the UK is to roll-out access to the Summary Care Record to all its
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