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Accenture’s NHS losses grow as NPfIT delays mount

Accenture, the leading management and technology consulting firm, announced a provision for a further $450 million of losses against its
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Two new PCT reporting tools launched

Two new web-based reporting tools to help primary care trusts and GPs deliver practice–based commissioning have been launched. Medical data firm
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New deal on system choice for GPs

GPs will be able to choose from a wider range of IT system suppliers under the terms of a new
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Read codes and rules for revised QOF issued

Read codes and business rules for the revised Quality and Outcomes Framework have been published. The final version of the
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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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Choice? What choice?

Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from.
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Asthma phone reviews won’t count for QOF

Telephone reviews for patients with asthma cannot count towards Quality and Outcome Framework targets, national arbitrators have ruled. The national
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Unichem connects for Electronic Prescription Service

Pharmaceutical wholesaler UniChem and its retail arm Alliance Pharmacy has announced that it has selected virtual networking company Sirocom to
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First P1R2 C+B implementation claimed in Crewe

Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust has upgraded its iCS patient administration system to cope with P1R2 (phase 1, release 2) of
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Authorities flag up problems ahead for C+B plans

Health authorities have until the middle of March to submit plans for meeting the government’s Choose and Book targets but
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