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1 May 2007

Scottish GPs insist on explicit consent on shared records

  GP practices must remain the data controller for GP records even if databases are held within a hosted environment,
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1 May 2007

Information Governance will be ongoing challenge

Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the  information governance challenge for shared
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1 May 2007

Nine companies in GP systems beauty parade

Nine companies including one newcomer to the market presented their GP IT systems to GP and primary care trust representatives
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1 May 2007

Nottingham expands diabetic retinopathy service

A £4.5m community-based digital eye screening programme for diabetics in Nottingham is being rolled out to a further six locations,
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24 April 2007

Choose and Book use by GPs falls

Latest Choose and Book statistics show that use of the system fell after the end of the financial year and
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24 April 2007

Diabetes prescribing decision support tool launched

A new computerised prescribing decision support tool that will provide healthcare professionals with patient-specific, evidence-based support in the management of
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23 April 2007

East and Midlothian physios get referral call centre

Therapists in the East Lothian and Midlothian Community Health Partnerships will be the first Scottish users of a centralised referral
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19 April 2007

Majority of GPs blame NPfIT for worsening morale

Almost three out of four GPs blame the National Programme for IT for worsening their morale in the last year,
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17 April 2007

PAC report reveals postcode lottery on GP systems

Connecting for Health has treated contracts for GP systems differently in its five clusters with local service providers contracted to
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11 April 2007

Hewitt launches ‘Choose and Book’ librarians

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has launched ten ‘choice’ library pilots. Librarians in the pilots will be trained to help people
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