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19 February 2013

Prescribing tool launched

Primary care researchers have launched a tool to help reduce the risk of commonly made drug prescribing errors.
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5 February 2013

Scotland gets digital deliveries

Twelve of 14 Scottish health boards are using PCTI’s Electronic Document Transfer Hub as part of a national project to
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1 February 2013

Wales procures GP data extract tool

NHS Wales is tendering for a data quality system worth up to £5.1m, which will extract data for external organisations.
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30 January 2013

Trust creates GP app

GPs in the North East of England can find details about hospital clinics and specialists via a new app produced
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
24 January 2013

GPs can refuse data extract

GPs will decide whether a massive new dataset can be regularly extracted from their practices.
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22 January 2013

Scotland gets GP info service

Scotland is building a national information service for GP data, due to go-live in a year.
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16 January 2013

‘Grave concerns’ over new GP dataset

GPs and privacy experts have “grave concerns” about an extensive new dataset to be extracted from GP practices.
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12 December 2012

Joe’s view of Christmas past, present and future

Joe McDonald has seen the future of NHS IT – in a GP surgery. And there’s a pint waiting at
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7 December 2012

New GP data set to assess quality

The NHS Commissioning Board will require every GP to provide a “standardised routine set of data” to help assess their
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30 November 2012

GP develops patient engagement tool

A Bradford GP and Airedale Hospital consultant have created an online care planning service for patients with long-term conditions.
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