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28 March 2013

Massive disparities in GP IT spend

Expenditure on GP IT varies enormously nationwide from between just 50p per head of population in Wiltshire to nearly £10
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27 March 2013

Care.data IG reconsidered

A new information governance assessment of the massive care.data GP extract is being presented to an Independent Advisory Group meeting
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12 March 2013

Customer platform ‘a state of mind’

The ‘customer service platform’ being created by the NHS Commissioning Board will encourage the health service to think differently about
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7 March 2013

NHS Direct cuts hit admin staff

NHS Direct is slashing its back-office costs in half and expects to make more than 300 whole time equivalent staff
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28 February 2013

NHS CB gets patient ‘insight’ via app

An ‘Insight Dashboard’ displaying patient experience data is being developed for use by the NHS Commissioning Board from April.
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25 February 2013

Patient coding with a twist

Patients will be taught how to code and make apps as part of a patient empowerment programme being run by
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25 February 2013

CCGs get £186m for IT

Clinical commissioning groups will get £186m a year to spend on GP IT.
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19 February 2013

Ricketts to open EHI commissioning event

Bob Ricketts, the NHS Commissioning Board’s director of commissioning support strategy and market development, will open EHI’s latest conference, Information
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14 February 2013

Trusts could lose contracts without EPR

The NHS Commissioning Board is drawing up plans designed to dramatically accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records by NHS
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12 February 2013

Keogh extends ‘outlier’ inquiry

The NHS Commissioning Board has announced that it is widening its inquiry into hospitals with apparently worrying mortality rates.
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