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GPASS Clinical may run locally

NHS Scotland is considering making the new version of its GPASS clinical system available on local practice servers as well as central
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QoF data to be published online

Practices will no longer have to release Quality and Outcome Framework data if asked to do so under the Freedom of
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St George’s publishes all mortality data online

St George’s Hospital, Tooting, south London, has become the first NHS hospital in the UK to publish graphs of mortality
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Communication key to cutting missed appointments

  A new survey of GP surgeries by health education charity Developing Patient Partnerships and the Institute of Healthcare Management
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GP2GP transfer to pilot next month in Gateshead

Nine practices in Gateshead PCT are to become the first in England to pilot GP2GP transfer of records next month.
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IT may solve feedback problems on cancer referrals

A study published in the European Journal of Cancer Care about feedback given to GPs who refer patients with ovarian
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PCT IT service agreement still missing

A service level agreement to guarantee the level of IT service practices should receive from primary care trusts under the
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A new era of choice?

Sean Riddell, deputy managing director of EMIS, examines the current climate five months after the DH announced it would allow
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‘Unplugged’ Choose and Book offered for download

Connecting for Health have released a browser-based, limited-functionality demonstration of Choose and Book for anyone to download. Entitled Choose and Book
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Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed

Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the
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