6 March 2012

DH toughens stance on 084 numbers

The Department of Health appears to have toughened its stance on use of 084 telephone numbers by GP practices in
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24 February 2012

DH sets out public health data roles

The Department of Health has set out the information and data analysis services it expects local authorities to deliver to
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20 February 2012

Clinicians should recommend cancer sites

Clinicians need to recommend websites on which patients can find accurate information about chemotherapy as patients place value on such
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15 February 2012

Cornish PROMS site changes pathways

Two doctors have launched a web-based system to collect patient reported outcome measures, and have signed up GPs, consultants and
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10 February 2012

More comissioners use PathFinderRF

Clinical commissioners in Peterborough have bought Plain Healthcare’s PathFinderRF system for referral decision support and clinical communication.
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7 February 2012

Northants picks Civica to inform CCGs

NHS Northamptonshire has selected software from Civica to help it supply information to its clinical commissioning groups.
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1 February 2012

DH expects 25-35 CSOs in England

The Department of Health has estimated that there will be between 25 and 35 commissioning support organisations in the reorganised
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27 January 2012

Forty CSOs to support new NHS

The majority of primary care trust clusters are planning to set up their own commissioning support organisations for clinical commissioning
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18 January 2012

CSOs need CCG support to survive – Hakin

NHS commissioning support organisations will need to demonstrate they have clinical commissioning groups prepared to buy from them if they
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13 May 2011

Data concerns must be addressed – PHCSG

Secondary use of data could be blocked nationally if the NHS fails to ensure patient data is used with proper
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