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10 January 2006

GP calls for judicial review of NCRS consent

A GP is calling for a judicial review of the government’s consent plans for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS).
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10 January 2006

Doctors critical of NPfIT costs, survey finds

Doctors believe the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) could provide valuable benefits to clinical care in the long term, but
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10 January 2006

Mixed feelings from GPs in new survey on NPfIT

A new survey of GPs shows a widespread dislike of Choose and Book, but optimism that the National Programme for
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4 January 2006

Choose and Book’s problems continue

Technical problems caused the national Choose and Book service to be unavailable for most of Tuesday 3 January, the day
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4 January 2006

One PCT qualified for Choose and Book payment

Durham Dales Primary Care Trust has been confirmed as the only PCT in England to qualify for the second stage
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2 January 2006

Choice without C&B

The patient choice agenda is going ahead despite delays in rollout of electronic bookings over Choose and Book, E-Health Insider
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20 December 2005

GP contract IM&T incentives announced

GPs are to be offered incentives worth up to £70m in total across England to embrace NHS information and management
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20 December 2005

One PCT may have met October C+B target

A primary care trust is hoping it will be able to claim the second £100,000 incentive payment for Choose and
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13 December 2005

National appointment booking line scales up

The national Choose and Book Appointments Line (CABAL) is now handling about 6000 calls a week with about three quarters
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6 December 2005

NHS signs enterprise deal with Novell

NHS Connecting for Health has negotiated a £21.8m deal with infrastructure and software services supplier Novell, which it claims will
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