A large scale patient record study has analysed 17.4 million GP records, working with GP system supplier TPP, to explore key factors associated with death from COVID-19. University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, working on behalf of NHS England, have analysed research in the […]
Primary Care News
One Gloucestershire triage app supports COVID-19 response
An app built by NHS surgeon, Owain Hughes is helping GPs and paramedics to screen COVID-19 patients. The platform, Cinapsis, is being used across the One Gloucestershire Integrated Care System to assess patients as part of their GP appointment, providing consultant advice when needed. The platform connects GPs and community lead nurses with consultants […]
Online GP service raises £2 million in Series A
Online GP service, GPDQ, has raised £2 million in Series A funding from investors. IW Capital has completed the raise to support the digital primary healthcare provider and its short term growth plans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. GDPQ, CQC certified, supports providers with an online GP on-demand service. […]
GP IT System supplier acquired by PUBLIC
PUBLIC, a leading government tech firm has acquired GP IT system supplier Microtest. The organisation offers support, insight, capital and networking to help tech providers, typically start-ups, navigate the public sector. The details of the deal remains undisclosed, and the co-founder of PUBLIC Alexander de Carvalho, has been announced as […]
GP Connect introduced to all GP practices and specialist care centres
NHS Digital and NHSX have announced GP Connect has been introduced to all GP practices to support the secure sharing of patient records across primary care. The organisations have also announced additional information will be added to the Summary Care Record during the Coronavirus pandemic. It introduces the ability to […]
myGP partners with GPDQ to increase video consultation capacity
iPlato, the creator of myGP, the software used to support a digital first primary care has partnered with online GP service provider GPDQ. The partnership means GP practices using myGP can increase their capacity when needed and utilise the GPDQ medical team for patient video consultations. A team of remote […]
Biobank GP data to be made available to scientists to tackle COVID-19
Data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants is to be made available to support scientists tackle COVID-19. Primary care data containing COVID-19 tests and confirmed cases from a dataset of over 503,000 consented participants will be extracted on a monthly basis for COVID-19 research purposes. The programme is being provided through Public […]
Health Tech Heroes part two
Each week as part of our Health Tech Heroes series we recognise and say thank you to those in health tech making a real difference. Here in the second part in the series, we cover some of the amazing work this week where teams across the country have been working […]
Webinar Overview: Digital first primary care
Last week through a live webinar, we heard from Kieran Waterston, Head of Sales at iPlato Healthcare. The webinar focused on a digital first primary care and how the mygp platform is being used to help the COVID-19 pandemic. You can watch a recording of the webinar here: Kieran Waterston […]
PRSB publishes guidance on COVID-19 SNOMED CT codes
The Professional Record Standards Body has published guidance on COVID-19 SNOMED CT codes. In response to the current pandemic, the body has worked with NHS Digital to publish clinical information for COVID-19-related care and treatment and how it should be coded. The UK SNOMED CT codes for COVID-19 have been released […]
