GP Systems of Choice - Your Patients, Your System, Your Choice

Documents and Web Resources

We have brought together links to all the relevant documents and resources that you might need to understand how the National Programme for IT s affecting General Practice.  You will find links and contact details for the key documents on Connecting for Health, Department of Health and British Medical Association websites and elsewhere. 

• National User Groups and Contact details
• Contacts for help
• Key organisations
• News sources
• Key web resources by subject
• All the references in this website

National User Groups and Contact details

National User Groups websites

• EMIS National User Group
• iSoft User Group
• National Vision User Group
• Microtest National User Group

See what users are saying on the User Group Forums

• EMIS NUG Forum
• NVUG Forum

Email contacts for help

• Joint GP IT Committee
• EMIS National User Group
• National Vision User Group
• iSoft User Group
• Microtest User Group
• Healthy User Group
• For general enquiries and the contact details for your local GPSoC lead if you are not able to obtain this information from your PCT or SHA GPSoC

Key organisations

• British Medical Association Local Medical Committees (find your LMC on this list published by the BMA))
• Connecting for Health
• GP Systems of Choice
• Primary Care Trusts (full list) Check their board papers for IT matters
• Strategic Health Authorities (full list) Check their board papers for IT matters

GPSoC Suppliers

• EMIS
• Healthy Software
• In Practice Systems
• ISoft
• Microtest
• Seetec
• TPP
• Waveform

Local Service Providers

• BT Capital Care Alliance
• CSC
• Fujitsu

News sources

• eHealth Insider – Primary Care IT news
• eHealth Insider Document Library – Archive of IT documents
• NHS 23 - A dossier of information on concerns over the current progress and direction of NPfIT

Key web resources by subject

Contracts

• GPSoC Contracts and Agreements
• nGMS Contract 2003

Statements

• Letter from Ben Bradsaw, Minister of State for the Health Services to Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of the BMA, September 2007
• Letter from Gordon Hextall, Chief Executive Officer of CfH on GPSoC March 2006
• Statement by the BMA and RCGP, endorsed by the Dept of Health and NPfIT April 2004

Guidance

• BMA Information Technology pages
• Good Practice Guidelines of GP Electronic Patient Records v3.1 (2005)
• IM&T Contract Guidance (Department of Health)
• IM&T in General Practice (Royal College of GPs February 2005)
• Information on Primary Care computing (Department of Health)
• Modernising IM&T in general practice (Department of Health)

All the references on this website

GPSoC

• Choice of system
• Contracts and Agreements
• Funding for Upgrades to GP IT Infrastructure
• GP IT Infrastructure Specification
• GPSoC Framework Suppliers
• How to Get Started
• Solution Maturity Model
• Step by Step Guides
• Supplier Roadmaps
• Who Pays for What

Others

• NHS Operating Framework 2008-09
  
• Confidentiality: Protecting and Providing Information
• Facilitator Showcase: An Insight into TPP Community Templates in Rotherham (October 2007)
• Sealed Envelopes Briefing Paper