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12 March 2007

BMA sits on critical Choose and Book survey results

The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical
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6 March 2007

Agreement reached on CHIA replacement

Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution
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27 February 2007

NHS Wales streamlines test sample processing

GPs and nurses across Wales are to switch to using printed labels and barcodes when they send test samples to
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26 February 2007

500th practice goes live with SystmOne GP system

  StowHealth Centre has become the 500th practice to go live with the SystmOne integrated GP record system provided by
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22 February 2007

GPC says patients should call C+B when no slots available

GP representatives are recommending that practices tell patients to ring the Choose and Book appointments line if they are no
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13 February 2007

GP questions Hewitt on ‘vanishing’ C+B services

A GP has questioned health secretary Patricia Hewitt about the use of Choose and Book for demand management as a
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6 February 2007

Bedford Hospital using C+B to manage demand, GPs claim

Bedford Hospital is rejecting GP referrals not made through Choose and Book in an attempt to manage demand for its
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5 February 2007

Information problems highlighted in complaints review

A quarter of second-stage complaints in the English NHS related to information, according to the Healthcare Commission’s report on 16,000
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3 January 2007

Nuffield Hospitals begin rollout of direct Choose and Book

The Nuffield Hospitals group have gone live with the directly bookable NHS Choose and Book system at its site in
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2 January 2007

MP’s website checks two-day GP target

A website that enables people to report problems getting appointments with their GPs within the 48-hour national target has been
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