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New e-health strategy planned for Scotland

A new e-health strategy for Scotland in spring 2008 is promised in a national healthcare action plan, Better Health, Better
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Verbal agreement on IM&T DES payments

GP representatives say they have verbal agreement that GP practices can still be paid for IM&T DES work after the
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N Yorks GPs protest over system choice

GPs claim their PCT is acting outside the GP Systems of Choice initiative by outlining a plan to encourage all
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GP2GP transfer software installed in 2000 practices

Connecting for Health has announced that it has rolled out GP2GP record transfer software to its two thousandth practice and
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Mobile SAP helped Swindon’s flood victims

During the summer’s floods housebound patients in Swindon were visited and assessed by community practitioners, who used mobile devices running
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Healthcare booths go on trial in Scotland

Patients in Scotland will be able to get treatments in specialised health booths, as part of a new collaboration between
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Yorkshire and Humber SHA plan TPP-based EPR

Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority has adopted a new IM&T strategy that explicitly plans for the possible non-delivery of
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Heart of Birmingham to be first VoIP enabled N3 site

The Heart of Birmingham PCT has become the first NHS trust to sign up to BT’s N3 hosted voice service,
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Shared services discussed in Northen Ireland

Northern Ireland’s health department has launched a consultation on setting up a shared services organisation for health and social care.
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Suppliers set routes on the GPSoC roadmap

TPP’s SystmOne and the wide area network version of EMIS PCS should meet Connecting for Health standards for hosted systems
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