Lexacom, the provider of digital dictation and speech recognition, has been chosen to roll out Lexacom 3 to Trafford GP Practices. 29 Practices will be using Lexacom 3, enabling them to make referrals, create documents and record clinical notes more accurately and efficiently. Before Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) made […]
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GP runs morning surgery on ‘patient power’
A GP in Greater Manchester harnessed the skills of his digital-savvy patients when a power cut brought his morning surgery to a standstill. Dr Amir Hannan, of Haughton Thornley Medical Centres in Greater Manchester, was able to continue consultations by viewing his patients’ medical records on their own smartphone devices, […]
iPLATO partners with Health Navigator
iPLATO Healthcare has announced a new partnership with Health Navigator, a leading health coaching service. The partnership will help iPLATO’s 15 million NHS patients across 1,650 GP practices in the UK access support and improve the management of their long-term health conditions. The Proactive Health Coaching (PHC) programme provides patients […]
NHS Wi-Fi rolled out to all GP surgeries
Every patient in England will be able to access free to use Wi-Fi in GP practices, under a scheme being rolled out across the country. NHS Wi-Fi will be rolled out to all general practices across England by 31 December 2017 and patients will be able to access the internet […]
iPLATO awarded a contract by the Small Business Research Initiative
iPLATO Healthcare has been awarded a contract by The Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare) to develop and trial ‘Intelligent Care Navigation’, to improve access to care for patients and help the NHS manage demand for primary care services. The trial will include a small number of practices […]
Virtual consultants help CCGs significantly reduce outpatient appointments
Cheshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have significantly reduced hospital referrals with a new digital service that could be replicated across the NHS. Thirty practices in South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs are using Medefer – a service that enables GPs to access ‘virtual’ consultant advice and management plans – for […]
Optimisation saves GPs 40 minutes per day
HERE a Primary Care not-for-profit social enterprise has announced its workflow optimisation programme with Docman is saving GPs up to 40 minutes per day. Workflow optimisation is an innovative approach to how GP practices manage and process incoming clinical correspondence. GPs make significant time savings back by reducing their workload by […]
Volunteers to help raise awareness of online access service
People visiting their doctors in Fylde and Wyre this week (19-24 June) could get a special demonstration of how to book appointments and order prescriptions online. Volunteers will be on hand at a number of practices across the area to help people get to grips with Patient Access – a […]
FBD OptimiseRx helps to drive £1.7 million underspend
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG is using patient-specific prescribing decision support from FDB OptimiseRx to support the appropriate use of medicines, and to disseminate local prescribing information and recommendations on medicines choices that has been developed by the Greater Manchester Medicines Management Group (GMMMG). A particular focus of NHS […]
Newham CCG: Increasing patient access with telephone surgeries
UCLPartners and Newham Clinical Commissioning Group are working together to equip primary care staff in the borough with valuable skills in improvement science to support 300,000 patients across 53 GP practices. Using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s model staff at the practice investigated barriers to patient access and reviewed the […]
