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Primary care staff are advised to leave systems switched off this morning
6 June 2016

GPs embracing phone but not Skype consultations

GPs remain resistant to politicians' calls to adopt Skype consulting, with many citing poor technology and a lack of patient
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9 February 2016

Another view: of funding GP workload

A review of the funding formula for GPs may be on the way. Neil Paul has been pulling together data
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29 January 2016

Healthcare IT primary care news in brief

This week's industry round-up focuses on news from the primary care sector, including contracts for prescribing software and the use
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14 January 2016

Prescribing tool opens up GP data

A new online tool allows people to quickly analyse and respond to the huge GP prescribing datasets released monthly by
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12 January 2016

Another view: of federation and the IT to make it work

GP Neil Paul opens 2016 by considering some of the challenges of federation and finding the IT to support practices
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24 December 2015

GP ‘detailed coded record’ info revealed

GPs must offer patients access to their 'detailed coded record' by the end of March next year; and NHS England
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2 December 2015

Summary Care Records: GPs add info

Nearly all of England's GPs are able to write additional information into a patient's Summary Care Record from within their
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13 October 2015

Tom’s digital disruptors: mobile video consultations

More and more private GP companies are setting up video consultation apps; and the NHS is being urged to move
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25 August 2015

Another view: of the future of primary care IT

Why do so many incumbent IT suppliers get overtaken in their markets? GP Neil Paul's been reading up on the
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16 June 2015

Enter the CCG: on good housekeeping

Dr John Lockley explains why the requirement to keep medical records up to date is harder to achieve than it
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