Tim Kelsey

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18 January 2013

The revolution will be digitised

The NHS Commissioning Board’s director of patients and information argues that digital is the biggest single answer to the productivity,
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16 January 2013

Hunt wants paperless NHS in five years

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has set out a tight timetable for making all records and communications in the NHS paperless
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16 January 2013

‘Grave concerns’ over new GP dataset

GPs and privacy experts have “grave concerns” about an extensive new dataset to be extracted from GP practices.
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20 December 2012

Seven for ‘13

Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records –
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18 December 2012

Paperless NHS means paperless referrals

The NHS Commissioning Board’s planning guidance, issued today, has confirmed that a “paperless NHS” means paperless referrals by 2015.
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7 December 2012

New GP data set to assess quality

The NHS Commissioning Board will require every GP to provide a “standardised routine set of data” to help assess their
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6 December 2012

Can you help me, Dr Geek?

The first Digital Doctors Conference in London covered the basics of programming. Lis Evenstad found delegates enthusiastic about everything from
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5 December 2012

New patient platform to kickstart SMEs

The new customer service platform being developed by the NHS Commissioning Board will invigorate small and medium-sized enterprises by creating
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14 November 2012

Code it yourself?

Tim Kelsey wants clinicians to code. But the first CCIO Leaders Network Annual Conference at EHI Live 2012 debated whether
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12 November 2012

Joe’s view: of openness

Joe undertakes a McDonald’s tour of organisational openness, via Birkenau, the Jimmy Savile scandal, and NPfIT.
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