Clinical Commissioning
A Paperless NHS
Given the usual scant regard to the commonly accepted meaning of words that seems to be the norm in the NHS – “Paperless” is something that we now have in the majority of general practices and that many have had for some years and I’m really enthusiastic about the desire from the centre to drag the rest…
Read MoreSecondary Uses of Data – A Poachers Tale
Early in my career in health informatics I had plans to make myself fabulously rich by selling pseudonymised patient data from GP for a range of secondary purposes. I managed to spend £15 million of my backers money giving away 1000 GP systems and established a database of 6 million patients records it all ended…
Read MoreEverything you wanted to know about GP Consortia IT
I organised what I think was the first national GP computing exhibition in 1981 for the GP Computer Suppliers Association (now part of Intellect) it was a sell out and I have been trying to organise another sell out event without success ever since. However, with the BCS Primary Health Info Conference I am helping…
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