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12 May 2010

Payments linked to clinical quality

Removing financial incentives for clinical quality can lead to a drop in performance, a study has found.
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20 April 2010

My vision for appraisals

Our columnist Dr Neil Paul has some ideas about how IT could better support appraisals.
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26 February 2010

EHI’s industry round-up: appointments

This special edition of the EHI industry round-up covers appointments made by major suppliers in the healthcare IT industry and
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30 September 2009

QoF income falls trigger survey row

GP practices’ achievement on the Quality and Outcomes Framework fell across the UK in the last financial year, costing the
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8 July 2009

Research backs QRISK

The QRISK formula for identifying patients most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease should replace the Framingham risk score in
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17 April 2009

NHS Choices to publish mortality rates

NHS Choices is to start publishing hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios on its website. The government’s flagship health site already publishes generalised
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6 April 2009

Doctors call for Google to change ad policies

Doctors are calling on internet search engine Google to change its advertising policies to prevent links to unproven remedies appearing
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24 March 2009

James Cook says C+B led to DNA rise

Another hospital department has reported an increase in its did-not-attend (DNA) rate for patients whose appointments were made through Choose
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5 February 2009

Best Practice online

The BMJ is launching an online point-of-care decision support tool that aims to provide immediate access to expert opinion, guidelines
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3 February 2009

Choose and Book increases DNAs

Attendance in outpatient clinics is worse for patients referred via Choose and Book than for those given an appointment after
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