Choice Archives

19 November 2007

Health secretary Alan Johnson has pledged a commitment to choice, despite pulling the plug on a series of independent sector

5 November 2007

The Department of Health has dropped plans to use Apollo software to extract patient data from GP practice systems this

18 October 2007

The NHS is failing to offer patients a choice of hospital for their outpatient appointments with barely 10% of primary care

18 October 2007

Almost one in four GPs believe their practice IT system is not working effectively, according to a major BMA survey

17 October 2007

Birmingham’s City Hospital, part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with iSoft’s iPM patient administration

16 October 2007

iSoft says it is making progress in the primary care sector, after completing its GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) contract

10 October 2007

The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase

9 October 2007

Choose and Book boss Dr Stephen Miller explains why he believes it will be patients that force the adoption of

9 October 2007

Financial incentives to encourage GPs to use Choose and Book will end in just over six months and patients will

2 October 2007

TPP’s SystmOne and the wide area network version of EMIS PCS should meet Connecting for Health standards for hosted systems

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