NHS England has launched an information gathering exercise with an aim to establish a new cloud telephony framework. The plans are said to form part of a national strategy to set in place a new framework for general practice and provide a sole procurement route for primary care. A prior information […]
Primary Care News
HTN Digital Primary Care: Dr Osman Bhatti on patient access to online GP records
At HTN Now: Digital Primary Care, we welcomed Dr Osman Bhatti, GP and Chief Clinical Information Officer at North-East London ICB. Osman joined us to discuss the debate around patient access to online GP records, with focus on what is happening, how practices should prepare, and how his own ICB […]
Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care in 2023?
To kick off our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems for 2023, we shared a poll with our audience of health tech professionals to gather their opinions on where the main priorities should lay for digital primary care this year. 106 people have voted since we posted our poll […]
Numed Healthcare launch patient check-in system with contactless QR code arrivals
Feature by Numed Healthcare Numed Healthcare has launched their fully contactless Envisage Patient Check-in system. Envisage Patient Check-in offers a range of features that enhance the arrival experience for patients and streamlines the GP practice. This includes contactless QR code arrivals, and full integration with the EMIS, TPP and Vision […]
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber community teams pilot patient communication tech
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) has completed a six-month pilot to digitise processes and patient experiences across its community service teams. The pilot aimed to improve communication between primary and secondary services, and support community teams such as podiatry, epilepsy and diabetes teams with patient messaging, video […]
HTN Now: Dr Andrew Whiteley on supporting Citizen Access
For HTN Now: Citizen Transformation, we interviewed Dr Andrew Whiteley, Managing Director of Lexacom, to find out more about Lexacom’s role in primary care and how they support the Citizen Access programme through their digital dictation and speech recognition software. On Lexacom’s beginnings We go back to the mid 1990s, […]
NHS England publishes case study on improving access to primary care through technology
NHS England has published a new resource entitled ‘Ensuring new technology provides primary care access for all’, in which they examine the case study of Swan Medical Practice in Birmingham, where an AccuRx online consultation system was introduced in November 2020 in order to manage triage and develop more efficient […]
Eight suppliers announced on new GP clinical systems framework
Eight suppliers have joined NHS Digital’s Tech Innovation Framework, designed to increase innovation and choice of GP IT core clinical systems in primary care. The new commercial framework aims to support the adoption of new GP core systems that have been designed and built in line with new standards and […]
One Care releases IIF tracking dashboard for primary care networks
One Care, a GP federation in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG), has developed a new dashboard to help general practice monitor progress against national targets from the Investment and Impact Fund (IIF). Covering 70 GP practices, One Care has launched the dashboard to measure PCN performance against a […]
NHS England instruct suppliers to pause plans for Citizens’ Access programme
NHS England has published an update on the Citizens’ Access programme, intended to provide patients with automatic access to their digital medical records, including new entries made to the GP record. The latest go-live date for the programme was 1 November 2022, however NHSE has stated that they recognise that […]
