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3 June 2015

Cornwall GPs follow Guru

A patient record sharing scheme in Cornwall has gone county-wide with all GPs signed up to share their information using
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27 May 2015

WebGP to reach millions

A GP e-consultation and self-help web service expects to reach 2 million patients by this time next year.
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5 May 2015

Another view: of IT for GP federations

Neil Paul wrote about the pressures on GP practices to federate in his last column, and promised he’d be back
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23 April 2015

MDU advises GPs on patient access

The Medical Defence Union has produced guidance for GPs to help them to ensure the confidentiality and accuracy of medical
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31 March 2015

Another view: of federation

GP Neil Paul is worried that time is nearly up for general practice as we have known it. It’s time
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22 December 2014

NHSmail SMS funding extended for GPs

NHS England has extended central funding of email-to-SMS services for primary care organisations using NHSmail, after the DH caused an
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10 December 2014

CQC under fire over monitoring data

The Care Quality Commission has been criticised after incorrectly placing 60 GP practices in high-risk categories due to “severely flawed”
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9 December 2014

Oxleas takes Docman for workflow, GPs

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has signed a three-year contract for PCTI’s Docman solution to share information with GPs and establish
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18 November 2014

Another view: of support chat

Dr Neil Paul wonders if GP practices could learn from the modern support tools used by companies; and suggests that
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5 November 2014

NHS Wales presses on with GP IT

NHS Wales is on time and under budget to complete the roll out of a centrally hosted IT service to
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