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West Yorkshire Digital Ambassador Programme opens for applications to support understanding of digital tech in primary care

The West Yorkshire Digital Ambassador Programme, the result of a collaboration between West Yorkshire Digital Primary Care Collaborative and Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber and designed to “strengthen the digital innovation, transformation and improvement skills of the primary care workforce”, has opened for applications. The course runs for nine weeks […]

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NHSE publishes latest stats on GP appointments including percentage of video consultations

NHS England has published the latest statistics on general practice appointments from September 2023, sharing that 23.8 percent were carried out via telephone (estimated to include around 7 million appointments) and 2.1 percent through video conferencing software (approximately 651,000 appointments) during the month. These figures demonstrate a slight drop from […]

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NHS England opens £300 million procurement framework for digital pathways in primary care IT

NHS England has opened a procurement framework for the provision of digital pathway solutions to support primary care IT with an estimated value of £297,600,060. The scope of the digital pathways services and systems required will cover care navigation; online consultations and online patient/service user request reporting; cross-organisational appointment booking; […]

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Wales awards £1.4m primary care workforce intelligence system contract

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has awarded a contract to procure a primary care workforce intelligence system, worth an estimated £1,144,760. The programme aims to form a single integrated solution to manage primary and community care workforce information, the medical performers list, ophthalmic performers list, dental performers list and all Wales pharmacy database […]

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Prescription management, long-term conditions, and new patient registrations in focus for improving care navigation in general practice

NHS England’s Primary Care Transformation team has published a guide focusing on prescription management, long-term conditions and new patient registrations as part of support to improve care related processes in general practice. For improving prescription management, the guidance places focus on increasing uptake of the NHS App or other patient […]

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Agilio acquires primary care specialist iatro

Agilio Software has announced its latest acquisition of iatro, a specialist digital primary care supplier. The company said the acquisition will enhance its patient engagement software offering, levering the “significant amount of information that is held on Agilio’s TeamNet required for patient communications and being published on GP websites”. The company […]

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Markets authority clears £1.2 billion EMIS purchase

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared UnitedHealth’s £1.2bn purchase of EMIS. In August, the CMA provisionally cleared and found no competition concerns for the proposed deal, leading to a final confirmation announcement on 29 September 2023 that “the transaction does not raise competition concerns” and has “cleared the deal […]