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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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20 September 2005

Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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20 September 2005

NI practice QoF scores published

Practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcome Framework in Northern Ireland have now been published and show GPs
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19 September 2005

Patients check records for errors

A practical exercise to find out how many errors patients can find in their records and how many entries they
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19 September 2005

CfH begins NHS information blitz

A marathon campaign to tell the nation about the NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS) gets underway today with a
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16 September 2005

Allergies must be Read coded for GP2GP

GPs and practice teams are being advised to record all allergies and sensitivities as Read coded entries to solve a
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15 September 2005

Pathology tech revamp to be ‘re-energised’ by DH

Pathology test results being sent electronically to care providers overnight, and testing facilities being made available in non-traditional settings, are
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13 September 2005

‘Unworkable’ smartcard rules to be re-written

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has been forced to scrap the rules that practices must sign up to when they
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13 September 2005

GP system choice still under negotiation with LSPs

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) is unable to provide a firm date on when arrangements will be finalised to provide
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13 September 2005

GP2GP goes live

A working version of the long-awaited GP2GP transfer system was demonstrated at the BCS's Primary Health Care Specialist Group Conference
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