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20 September 2005

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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30 August 2005

QoF data to be published online

Practices will no longer have to release Quality and Outcome Framework data if asked to do so under the Freedom of
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5 August 2005

Improve communication on NPfIT, say researchers

Unrealistic and shifting timetables, lack of consultation and communication with NPfIT managers, and lack of perceived short term benefits have
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7 July 2005

Granger issues stern warning for failing suppliers

Richard Granger, director general of NHS IT and chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health, has delivered another stern warning
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5 July 2005

QOF publication due despite GP concerns

Publication of individual practice results for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is likely to go ahead in England, Wales
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4 July 2005

‘Choose and Book’ will improve, says Pringle

Choose and book will improve over this summer, Professor Mike Pringle, GP lead for NHS Connecting for Health has pledged.
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29 June 2005

Calls for clarity in spirited BMA confidentiality debate

Doctors queued up to speak on the confidentiality issues raised by centralised electronic records in a lively open debate at the
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28 June 2005

Choose and Book a ‘fiasco’, claims BMA chair

The chairman of the British Medical Association has criticised the government’s choice agenda and dubbed Choose and Book a “fiasco”
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27 June 2005

BMA chair to lead top level IT working party

The British Medical Association is to suspend its information management committee and replace it with a top level working party
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20 June 2005

GPs vote against NHS Connecting for Health

Despite improved relationships with the leadership of the BMA, last week’s Local Medical Committees’ (LMC) conference revealed just how far
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