Choice

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31 May 2006

Choose and Book fails on air

Enthusiasts and sceptics among the GP community had their say about Choose and Book on a BBC investigation of the
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26 May 2006

US conference gets a reality check on NPfIT

Former National Programme for IT industry liaison manager, Phil Sissons, delivered a transatlantic reality check this week, exposing some of
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22 May 2006

CBT pilots to include computer therapies

EHI Primary Care has learned that the Department of Health is preparing to include the use of computer software as part of new
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16 May 2006

Technical problems with Choose and Book dog GPs

Frustrations with Choose and Book including problems reconciling GP records with the personal demographics service have prompted some GPs to
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9 May 2006

Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH

Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction
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3 May 2006

Lloyds gets authorisation to deploy on ETP

Lloyds Pharmacy has received technical accreditation and authorisation to deploy from Connecting for Health to connect its in-house pharmacy system
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2 May 2006

New version of C+B supports ‘extended’ choice

GPs are expected to offer patients the option to choose from a national menu of NHS hospitals and private providers
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2 May 2006

Contract negotiations underway for system choice

Contracts have been sent to GP system suppliers due to taking part in the ‘system choice’ initiative for GPs and negotiations are taking place on a
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28 April 2006

Scottish LMCs vote for abolition of GPASS

GP representatives have voted for the abolition of the Scottish computer system GPASS in a move which puts growing pressure
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25 April 2006

GPC concerned over local C+B implementation problems

Local implementation problems could cause practices to miss the next targets for Choose and Book but GPs should not lose
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