Dept of Health

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23 October 2012

DH proposes GP contract changes

The government is proposing to change the GP contract to stop financial payments for organisational tasks and reward practices for
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26 September 2012

Enthusiastic response to ITK fund

More than 150 people have attended webinars on the new £2.2m Information Sharing Challenge Fund since it was announced on
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21 September 2012

40m SCRs by 2014

The Summary Care Record programme is on track to reach 40m people by early 2014, Dr Charles Gutteridge has said.
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4 September 2012

CSC signs new deal with DH

CSC and the Department of Health have agreed a new deal that removes CSC’s exclusive rights to be the only
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14 August 2012

Joe’s view: of the new NHS IT arrangements

Joe McDonald contemplates the contents of his kitchen bin, and how they might be a metaphor for NHS IT in
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9 August 2012

CSC reaches Lorenzo “milestone”

The Department of Health appears to have signed off the deployment verification criteria for three of the early adopters of
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31 July 2012

National IT transfer plans unveiled

Staff working for NHS Connecting for Health, its strategic health authority delivery arms, and the Health and Social Care Information
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10 July 2012

Future SROs expected to deliver

NHS Informatics wants to see “a major step change” in the way that national IT programmes are managed in the
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9 July 2012

NHS Informatics to be pulled in three

Responsibility for NHS IT at a national level is to be split three ways between the Department of Health, the
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1 June 2012

DH gives another push to Choose and Book

GPs will have to use Choose and Book or face “potentially labour intensive methods” for booking appointments under new plans
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