GPs and community providers have been reported to have surpassed £100 million in directly attributable savings since frontline staff began using an innovative technology to prescribe less expensive and more clinically appropriate medicines for individual patients. OptimiseRx, is now used in thousands of GP practices, and more than 125 clinical […]
Primary Care News
RCGP Chair takes on tech firms who are using ‘bully boy’ tactics and creating a ‘digital divide’ in patient care
The UK’s top GP will hit back at accusations that doctors are ‘technophobic dinosaurs’ who are reluctant to move with the times. Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, will accuse wealthy tech companies of creating a ‘digital divide’ as younger and fitter patients are ‘siphoned off’ […]
CCube Solutions to transform Lloyd George records for GPs
CCube Solutions has launched a health record archiving service for GP practices to scan Lloyd George records currently stored within the practice and make available electronically, ensuring quality and cost efficiency at all times. This provides an opportunity for practices to significantly reduce storage costs, achieved through a skilled capable […]
Leeds goes live with GP Connect
GP practices and clinical staff in Leeds can share and view authorised information and data between IT systems, quickly and efficiently, using GP Connect. GP Connect is an NHS Digital led programme, connecting health and care data and supporting clinical staff by making medical information held within the patient’s GP […]
Artificial intelligence and electronic health records could help suicide prevention efforts
A collaboration of doctors and academics including ABMU Health Board emergency medicine consultant Dr Sarah Spencer found that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to scan a patient’s health history and has the potential to highlight patients who may be at increased risk of suicide. It’s based on findings which […]
150 trusts switch to e-referral service
NHS Digital has announced a total of 150 acute hospital trusts and 7,110 GP practices have made the move to sending and receiving all first outpatient appointments through the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) and managed to beat the 1 October deadline to fully move to e-RS. Trusts that have already […]
First digital screening template for homeless people
A UK charity has introduced the first dedicated digital health-screening template for homeless people – enabling hospitals to better care for the estimated 4,700 people sleeping rough on UK streets. The homeless health charity Pathway developed the template in partnership with EMIS Health, working together with 11 specialist homeless healthcare […]
HTN partners with eGPlearning
To support the sharing of health tech news and insight we are delighted to have sponsored eGPlearning a Podblast series to help clinicians and patients learn and understand about health technology and the implications for UK primary care and health care. The eGPlearning podblast is cohosted by Dr Hussain Gandhi […]
Servelec and Microtest announce Mental Health and GP system integration
Servelec and Microtest have successfully integrated the Servelec RiO electronic patient record product for mental and community health with Microtest’s Open Evolution clinical IT system for GP practices to support the sharing of patient records. This integration will provide RiO users secure access to clinical information held in Microtest’s GP […]
Creating a new IT ecosystem for General Practice
NHS Digital is taking the next step to create a more open, flexible and competitive IT framework for primary care. A Prior Information Notice has been published to launch market engagement activities for the new Digital Care Services framework. This new framework will replace the outgoing GP Systems of Choice framework […]
