Stockport Local Medical Committee

IM&T Guidance

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PO Box 125
Stockport
SK6 6WL
Telephone: 07790 939650

13 December 2006

Officers
Dr David Gilbert
Chairman
Dr Ranjit Gill
LMC Executive Committee
Dr Abdul Ghafoor
LMC Executive Committee
Mr Paul Stevens
Executive Officer

 IM&T Guidance

Significant volumes of guidance have been issued in recent months regarding the NHS IT agenda. The aim of this page is to make much of this guidance available to practices at a press of a button.

Title Date Issued & By Whom Summary
Creating Connections for Care          A practical guide to NHS Connecting for Health for Primary Care Teams May 2006 - NHS Connecting for Health Publication gives an overview of current developments in Primary Care IT including N3, Smartcards, Choose & Book, Electronic Prescription Service, GP2GP electronic records transfer, QMAS, NHSmail, IM&T DES, Data accreditation and PRIMIS, GP Systems of Choice.

Implementing the IM&T DES: Data Accreditation

 April 2006 - GPC

A key objective of the DES is to support practices to achieve accredited data quality standards that are fit for sharing in the NHS Care Records Service.  This guidance provides PCTs and practices with further information about the data accreditation process.  Additional technical guidance will be published by the end of summer 2006.       

Briefing on the GP Systems of Choice announcement for LMCs and GPC

 April 2006 - GPC Briefing paper detailing system of choice process
IMT DES Guidance for PCTs GPC / NHS Connecting for Health

Summarises when and how PCT should make payment for the component parts of the IMT DES
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 
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