Choice

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Paper sole option for patients opting out of CRS

Patients who wish to opt out of having their information recorded on the NHS Care Records Service will only be
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GPs ‘under no obligation’ to offer choice

GP representatives have told GPs that they are under no obligation to offer a choice of four or five providers
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Scottish practices indicate interest in systems switch

Almost 20 per cent of practices in Scotland have expressed an interest in switching to a different IT system with
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Granger says NPfIT in danger of being derailed

The director in charge of the £6.2 billion NHS National Programme for IT has warned that the project is in
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Chester to survey patients on outcomes

The Countess of Chester NHS Trust has signed up to a patient reported outcomes programme run by analytical benchmarking company,
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Granger answers Choose and Book critics

NHS IT chief, Richard Granger, says that low usage of the Choose and Book system is not something he can
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EHI cited by Commons Public Accounts Committee

The Department of Health director responsible for the NHS National Programme for IT was taken to task last week by
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Parliament told of GPs’ scepticism over C+B

GPs are slowly becoming more knowledgeable about Choose and Book and its implications while gradually becoming more negative about it,
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Lessons for NPfIT from ‘wild ride’ to US failure

A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient
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Moorfields Eye Hospital goes for virtual storage

 Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have installed a virtual storage server that allows them to add extra hardware and storage
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