Practices across Stockport and North Central London CCG have deployed X-on’s telephony solution, Surgery Connect. The company has announced the completion of the two deployments, spanning 120 GP practices across the areas, delivering its cloud-based system. It means practices can access multiple telephone lines, manage call queues, report on trends […]
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Patients set to access new entries in TPP and EMIS health records
From next month, patients will be able to access all new entries in their online health records, if their GP practice use TPP or EMIS IT systems. According to NHS Digital, patients who use online accounts – such as the NHS App – and whose surgery uses TPP, will be […]
Primary Integrated Community Services adopts GP Billing
Success Story by GP Billing: Successfully embedding GP Billing during the COVID-19 Pandemic Primary Integrated Community Services (PICS), an organisation that supports 11 Primary Care Networks in Nottinghamshire, has successfully embedded GP Billing to remove paper and automate billing processes. The organisation has seen a reduction in time spent on billing tasks, whilst improving data […]
CQC wins grant to support innovation in primary care
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been awarded £169,000 to support innovation in general practice. The grant is being provided by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), through its Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, which enables UK regulators and local authorities to help create a regulatory environment that supports […]
CCG signs contract for cancer digital support tool
NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG has signed a three-year contract with C the Signs, a diagnostic tool to help detect cancer at an early stage. The tool has been developed by NHS doctors and uses artificial intelligence technology to help to identify patients with suspected cancer, or […]
AccuRx raises £27.5 million
AccuRx, a health-tech company focused on ‘bringing together everyone involved in a patient’s care’ has raised £27.5 million in Series B funding. The company announced the news this week, with plans for the funding to be used to ‘build a patient-centred communication platform for the healthcare system’. Supported by Lakestar, a […]
Video: Eva Health explain co-admin eVacc software at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021
At our Digital Primary Care conference last month, we hosted a variety of live webcasts and discussion sessions from healthcare providers, NHS representatives and industry experts. We’ve been recapping some of the sessions over the past month, with one of the most topical for September being Eva Health’s talk on […]
Wales awards community e-scheduling contract
NHS Wales has awarded a contract to Malinko to supply its digital scheduling tool for 3,000 community healthcare professionals. Following a successful pilot with district nurses who are part of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg and Aneurin Bevan University Health Boards, the tool will now be rolled out across Wales. The roll-out […]
GP machine learning tech raises £2.1million
Abtrace, a health-tech start-up, has raised £2.1 million of seed funding to support its machine learning technology and transform how chronic and long-term health conditions are detected, monitored and treated. The AI tool integrates with GP practice systems to help identify which tests or treatments a patient with a long-term […]
Market engagement starts for GP online triage tech across Scotland
NHS National Services Scotland, on behalf of Scottish Government, has opened a market information gathering exercise for the provision of GP Online Triage Solutions or General Practice Digital Asynchronous Consultation Systems for up to 925 GP practices. General Practice Digital Asynchronous Consultation Systems (DACS) is a term used in the […]
