Choose and Book

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Paperless without a PAS

Sarah Bruce talks to Stephen Parsons, IM&T projects manager at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Consent back on LMCs’ agenda

Grassroots GPs are to return to the debate for an opt-in approach to the transfer of patient identifiable data and
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Government’s CIO praises NHS progress

The government’s chief information officer has praised IT systems in the health sector but has highlighted the need to “drive
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AHPs embrace Choose and Book

Yvonne Pettigrew, CfH’s national clinical lead for allied health professionals Use of Choose and Book for referrals to allied health
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Cerner embraces Wikinomics

US healthcare IT giant Cerner is getting set to embrace user innovation. Jeff Townsend, the man behind the initiative, spoke
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Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment: go live

Sarah Bruce catches up with Benenden Hospital’s deployment of an Oasis electronic patient record system.
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The NHS Number

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Julie Tindale, national clinical lead for the NHS Number Programme, discusses
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Practice managers embrace SCR

A survey into practice managers’ attitudes towards healthcare IT systems has found that they are generally in favour of IT
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Choose and Book usage rises to 54 per cent

Choose and Book is now being used for 54% of referrals for first outpatient appointments according to Connecting for Health.
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Trust loads C+B referrals manually

An NHS acute trust has been using staff to manually upload paper referrals to boost its Choose and Book performance
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