GPES

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GP IT system failings force govt review of Atos contracts

The Cabinet Office will review all of the government’s high-value technology contracts with Atos following serious failings identified with the
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PAC slams GPES failures

Whitehall is continuing to fail to learn from IT disasters, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report that
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Over-budget GPES has no future – NAO

Significant delays to the General Practice Extraction Service have seen costs rise from £14 million to £40 million - and
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Delay to 700,000 patient opt-outs

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is “extremely concerned” that 700,000 patient objections to having their identifiable data shared
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Data advisory group to disband

The independent advisory group set up to review requests for GP patient data is being disbanded in favour of two
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Dr Joanne Bailey to chair GPES group

Dr Joanne Bailey has been chosen to chair the GP Extraction Service Independent Advisory Group, the Health and Social Care
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500 GP practices to pilot care.data

Between 100 and 500 GP practices will trial care.data in a phased roll out beginning this autumn, NHS England has
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CQRS error hits GP QOF payments

An error in the Calculating Quality Reporting Service calculation has led to GPs missing out on thousands of pounds of
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SCR opt-out does not apply to care.data

Care.data information leaflets being sent to households in January will tell patients that an opt-out of the Summary Care Record
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CQRS hits technical problems

Technical problems with a new service for calculating payments for GP practices mean practices have to manually enter data for
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