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Plans for children’s databases criticised

Government plans for children’s databases could end up putting children at increased risk by diverting resources away from frontline services
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GPs threaten to block national patient database

One in two GPs have signalled their intention not to upload patients’ clinical details to the NHS Care Records Service
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GP wins award for recall system

Dr Lorna Dunlop, GP at Riverview Medical Centre, Johnstone has won the IT Innovation Award for Best Use of IT
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NHS Direct patient database approaches first birthday

NHS Direct, the health service’s telephone and online advice service will celebrate the first birthday of its single national database
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CfH wields axe on funding Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence will no longer be freely available to clinicians in England after NHS Connecting for Health failed to agree
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Healthcare Commission’s website opens up all NHS data

The Healthcare Commission is today launching a website to give NHS patients and the public access to its entire database
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Mobile version of Clinical Evidence launched

The BMJ Publishing Group and US knowledge management systems developers, Unbound Medicine, have launched a new mobile resource which gives
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DH consults on child Information Sharing Index

The government has launched a consultation on regulations for its proposed electronic database of children aged 0 to 18. The
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EMIS Web to be rolled out to 1,000 practices

GP computer supplier EMIS is to roll out the next generation of its primary care software, EMIS Web, to 1,000
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High scores on QoF, but wait for exception reporting

Almost one in ten GP practices earned maximum points from last year’s Quality and Outcomes Framework according to data published
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