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3 April 2009

GP2GP hits half a million transfers

More than 500,000 electronic patient records have now been transferred between GP practices using GP2GP software, NHS Connecting for Health
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31 March 2009

Hospitals breaking DPA every day

The BMA says hospitals are breaking the Data Protection Act on a daily basis by sending referral correspondence to the
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30 March 2009

College highlights poor PACS image sharing

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor,
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27 March 2009

Insider View: Michael Cross

The Database Report had some great points to make. Pity they were hidden by its errors, says Michael Cross.
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24 March 2009

CfH aims for 4 million HealthSpace users by 2014

NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by
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23 March 2009

Personal appearance dropped for SCR opt-out

NHS Connecting for Health has dropped the requirement for patients to appear in person if they wish to opt out
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20 March 2009

PACS group demands action on NHS Number

Why isn’t it compulsory to use the NHS Number as the primary identifier for patients in England, just as the
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19 March 2009

IT vital to pharmacy progress

Use of the NHS Care Records Service by community pharmacists will be an essential part of the reform agenda for
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17 March 2009

CfH terminates Fujitsu helpdesk contract

NHS Connecting for Health has terminated the service desk contract it had with Fujitsu because of performance problems. The First
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12 March 2009

Half of PCT-practice agreements signed

More than 50% of GP practices have now signed their PCT-practice agreement for GP Systems of Choice. Just under 4,000
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