e-Referrals Service

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20 August 2021

NHSX sets out intentions to improve electronic referral services

NHSX is calling on relevant suppliers help develop strategies for implementing electronic bookings, referrals and appointment management services.
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Paper documents
8 October 2018

East Suffolk and North Essex saves hours thanks to automation technology

The technology includes three 'virtual workers', which actively monitor incoming referrals from the national GP eRS in real-time, 24 hours
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5 September 2018

England’s acute trusts beat deadline for e-Referrals switch

In an announcement made at NHS Expo – currently taking place in Manchester – it was revealed 150 acute hospital
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5 September 2018

PRSB sets the standards for clinical referral information

It is hoped that the exchange of referral information from GPs to hospital consultants will be improved once the new
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15 June 2018

Hospital trusts bid goodbye to paper as e-RS gathers steam

More than half of all hospital trusts in England - 79 in total - are now using the NHS e-Referral
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5 May 2016

First NHS e-Referrals API by end of year

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is developing a set of open APIs for its NHS e-Referrals service, with
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16 June 2015

E-Referral Service stabilised – then not

The new NHS e-Referral Service was running well on Tuesday afternoon, but has subsequently suffered another day of problems.
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24 December 2014

NHS England promotes IT in ‘to do’ list

NHS England has urged clinical commissioning groups to start working on ‘roadmaps’ for integrated digital care records, given them sticks
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