NHS Spine

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15 November 2005

ETP potential

EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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1 November 2005

Choose and Book ‘will be a year late’

The flagship Choose and Book electronic booking application will be at least a year late by the time it is
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20 September 2005

Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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26 May 2005

Suppliers advised to develop standalone software

Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that it is advising its suppliers to develop standalone versions of their applications, not
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16 May 2005

Data quality vital to electronic transfer of prescriptions

Keighley, the first pilot site for electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), has found that before new national systems can be
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27 January 2005

First NPfIT deployment plans released

The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time,
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19 January 2005

NAO finds Choose and Book running late

Technical problems, delays in delivering upgrades and failure to engage GPs means the roll-out of Choose and Book, the national
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28 July 2004

Trusts refuse to pay suppliers’ legacy upgrade costs

The National Programme for IT’s policy on legacy systems is causing confusion among trusts and suppliers over who should pay
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