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GPs shape the future of health IT

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs,
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Swindells says Darzi 50 per cent about information

Matthew Swindells has said that the NHS Informatics Review sets an unprecedented information challenge.
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BT on track to get southern Cerner trusts

British Telecom is on track to take over responsibility of the eight southern NHS trusts running Cerner Millennium from Fujitsu,
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Doctors repeat call for inquiry into CFH

Doctors’ representatives have called for an independent inquiry into Connecting for Health and demanded that trusts be allowed to seek
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E-Health Insider award winner blazes trail for NHS

Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust won the 2007 BT e-Health Insider award for Excellence in Health Information Management.
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NHS manager suspended after losing laptop

A senior hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop computer containing the unencrypted records of over 20,000 patients was
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QoF to be re-focused on health promotion

Lord Darzi’s NHS review outlines plans to overhaul the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) to place a greater emphasis on
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Data accreditation completed for 800 practices

Just over 800 GP practices have now had their data accredited as part of the directed enhanced service for IM&T.
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Kent and Medway use COIN for cardiac care

Kent informatics staff at Darent Valley A new Community of Interest Network (COIN) at Kent and Medway is helping cardiac
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CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts

The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen
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