Cegedim Healthcare Solutions, the supplier of the Vision primary care clinical system, has announced a new contract award for its cloud-based product in Scotland. Following a call-off contract placed by NHS Tayside in July, the first GP practice in the area has gone live with the new Vision product on […]
Primary Care News
HTN Digital Primary Care: Dr Osman Bhatti on patient access to GP records
Dr Osman Bhatti, GP and Chief Clinical Information Officer for North East London CCG, joined us at our HTN Digital Primary Care event to discuss patient access to GP records. Osman set out to explore topics including what patient access means for general practice, what practices need to do to […]
Health Tech Trends: what does the future of digital primary care look like in 2, 5 and 10 years?
What will digital primary care look like in two, five and ten years? We posed this question to people from across the healthcare industry to give them the chance to share their thoughts and opinions – read on to find out what they had to say. “The potential for digital […]
GP records pilot aims for early identification of Hepatitis C
A pilot programme is to explore how primary care records can be used to identify and diagnose people unknowingly living with Hepatitis C. Supported by NHS England, MSE and EMIS, the project will use patient search identification software to identify patients with certain conditions, or those at risk of them. The three […]
Health Tech Trends: what does good look like for primary care technology?
For our latest Health Tech Trends feature, we’re looking into IT in general practice, exploring the challenges and asking what good looks like for primary care technology. We contacted individuals from across primary care to get their thoughts and received plenty of answers, focusing on key topics such as access, public […]
GP Data for Planning and Research programme “the jargon has to stop when we talk about data”
NHS Digital has released an update on the GP Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme, publishing findings from its ‘listening report’, ahead of moving onto an engagement phase of developing ‘an effective communications campaign’. The listening report highlights that “it is crucial that patients and the public understand how […]
South East London ICS signs deal for workforce tech to support staffing
A South East London Integrated Care System, Our Healthier South East London, has signed a two-year deal to deliver workforce technology across the area. 200 GP practices and 58 extended hub sites will be connected using Lantum’s platform to support workforce scheduling and staffing. The company said the single platform will […]
£20 million framework for digital flexible staff pools in primary care
NHS England has opened a £20 million framework procurement for local systems to deploy digital flexible staff pools to support clinical capacity in primary care. Suppliers who offer a digital solution are now being invited to apply to the framework, initially focusing on the deployment of GPs, to enable practices to post […]
Industry opinion: how many GP clinical system suppliers will there be in five years?
Last week, we shared a poll on LinkedIn and in our newsletter asking: five years from now, how many GP clinical system (core electronic health record) suppliers do you think there will be? Views were split; after three days, 51 percent of respondents voted that they do not expect to […]
GP Tech Innovation Framework opens for suppliers
NHS Digital has today opened an invitation for suppliers to tender for a new Tech Innovation Framework for primary care IT. The framework aims to support the provision of electronic patient record systems and associated solutions for primary care, in line with a new set of standards and capability requirements. Hoping […]
