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IT payment offers £4250 for practices in Wales

GP practices in Wales can earn £4250 under a new IT payment scheme worth £2.1 million agreed as part of the
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Patients view their GP records at home over web

Two patients from a Derbyshire practice have viewed their GP records over the internet from home as part of a
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Granger tells NHS to be proud of progress

Multinational giant, GE Healthcare, has earned praise from the NHS IT director-general for its rapid progress in deploying picture archiving
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PCTs start transferring patient records by CD

Practices from two primary care trusts in Hertfordshire are about to start transferring patients records on CD, ahead of the
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RCGP backs ‘opt-in’ model for national care records

The Royal College of General Practitioners has decided to back an ‘opt-in’ model for the national NHS Care Records Service
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EMIS set to pilot new e-records system

GP computer supplier EMIS is about to pilot its new electronic record system linking practices with community teams including district
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Missing link

Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH
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Poll shows strong clinical support for IT modernisation

An online poll carried out by Doctors.net.uk found that has found that 80% of doctors say they support moves to
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ECGs by phone for GPs in the north west

GPs in Lancashire and Cumbria SHA have started using a telephone-based clinical monitoring service, using small devices that take ECGs
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CfH says Choose and Book fixes imminent

Connecting for Health says it has fixed or will ‘very shortly’ correct some of the problems in the Choose and
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