Choose and Book

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Not quite on target

Fiona Barr looks at the figures and the reasons behind the slippage of targets for Choose and Book referrals.
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Choose and Book set to miss 90% referral target

The Department of Health’s target for 90% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book by next March looks
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Half of PCT IT staff left in the dark over mergers

A telephone poll of newly merged primary care trusts by EHI Primary Care has revealed that almost half of the 40
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Patients cannot remember C+B referral options

A total of 80% of patients in Selby and York Primary Care Trust claimed they were not offered a choice
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Some N3 links ‘too slow for Choose and Book’

A fanfare for the near completion of the new NHS network, N3, has been met with complaints that some GP
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Treasury decision on GPSoC still pending

A decision on the full business case for GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) is still awaited from the Treasury, Connecting
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iSoft GP users should not feel pressed to change

GP practices that use iSoft primary care systems should not feel pressurised to move to other systems despite media coverage
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1 in 5 referrals now done via C+B

More than a million referrals have now been made through Choose and Book but four out of five referrals have
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PHCSG update

Ewan Davis looks at the issues that next month's BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference will be covering.
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CfH looking for PCTs to trial summary record

NHS Connecting for Health is looking for primary care trusts to become early adopters for the NHS Care Records Service
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