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 […]
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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 […]
6 CCGs to use iPlato representing 1.6 million patients
iPLATO Healthcare has announced that an additional 6 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) representing over 1.6 million patients across South West London are to use iPlato and the myGP app. The free patient-facing platform helps speed up access to care by allowing patients to securely book and/or cancel appointments 24/7. Also fully […]
GP Practices in Hull and East Riding to open Monday as systems start to come back online
GP practices across Hull and East Riding will be open as usual on Monday. However many are still bringing their IT and clinical systems back on-line following the cyber-attack, which took place on Friday 12 May 2017 and affected many organisations around the world. Some practices will not yet have […]
People living with diabetes benefit from watching films online
A pilot service-evaluation study, undertaken by Swansea University, has shown that watching short health information films online helps people living with type 2 diabetes reduce their HbA1c – an established marker of diabetes control. The report, to be published in the May issue of the international journal Primary Care Diabetes, […]
GP practice triples online patients in one week
A GP practice in Cumbria more than tripled the number of patients registered to use its online services in just one week with an extensive information drive. Practices across England aimed to get 10% of their patients registered for GP online services by 31 March, 2017. The Duke Street Surgery […]
New, faster Vision Appointments App now centrally funded through GPSoC
CCGs can now order Vision’s new Appointments App under the GPSoC framework. The app, available for order and deployment to practices free of charge, is set to cut typical appointment booking time in half. This frees up valuable admin time and reduces wait times for patients while booking or changing […]
Electronic records enable safer hospital care for Ayrshire patients
A multidisciplinary team is giving safer, more efficient care to vulnerable patients in an Ayrshire hospital, with the help of two-way record sharing via EMIS Health. More than 50 staff – including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists – have switched from paper records to the EMIS […]
