Choose and Book

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18 March 2008

GP systems create £1.6m in recurrent savings

More than 600 GP systems had been installed under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) by the end of March
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19 February 2008

New GP leads aim to connect

Dr Peter Short, one of two new GP clinical leads just appointed by Connecting for Health, is clear about how
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12 February 2008

Direction promised on NHS information strategy

New clear direction on NHS IT and information strategy has been promised ‘within weeks’ by one of the leaders of the Department
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12 February 2008

Private GP providers’ technology

The private providers winning contracts to run general practices have information technology close to the top of their agendas, Fiona
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31 January 2008

Use of Choose and Book hits 50 percent

The online NHS patient appointment booking service Choose and Book is being used for about 50% of referrals according to
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30 January 2008

Choose and Book to list private hospitals

The next version of Choose and Book software will list all available hospitals, regardless of whether they are public or
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28 January 2008

Hospitals block appointments with C+B

Hospitals are using Choose and Book to block patients making appointments so they can meet their waiting time targets, according
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25 January 2008

Countdown to the 18 week wait

By December 2008 all non-urgent NHS patients should start their hospital treatment within 18 weeks of referral, a major challenge
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22 January 2008

Moving to hosted systems

Disagreement over extended access could impact the speed of movement to hosted systems. Fiona Barr reports.
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7 January 2008

Taunton go-live with Cerner Millennium

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has become the eighth site in the South of England to go-live with the
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