Choice

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19 November 2007

DH maintains commitment to choice

Health secretary Alan Johnson has pledged a commitment to choice, despite pulling the plug on a series of independent sector
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5 November 2007

Patient data extraction software dropped by DH

The Department of Health has dropped plans to use Apollo software to extract patient data from GP practice systems this
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18 October 2007

NHS failing on offering patients choice

The NHS is failing to offer patients a choice of hospital for their outpatient appointments with barely 10% of primary care
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18 October 2007

A quarter of GPs say IT systems not working well

Almost one in four GPs believe their practice IT system is not working effectively, according to a major BMA survey
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17 October 2007

Birmingham’s City hospital goes live with iPM

Birmingham’s City Hospital, part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with iSoft’s iPM patient administration
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16 October 2007

iSoft progress with GP contracts

iSoft says it is making progress in the primary care sector, after completing its GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) contract
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10 October 2007

NHS budget to reach Ā£110 billion by 2011

The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase
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9 October 2007

Patient pressure to drive Choose and Book

Choose and Book boss Dr Stephen Miller explains why he believes it will be patients that force the adoption of
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9 October 2007

Choose and Book to end financial incentives

Financial incentives to encourage GPs to use Choose and Book will end in just over six months and patients will
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2 October 2007

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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