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	<title><![CDATA[Here comes 2011]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/670/here_comes_2011</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Over the course of 2010, a new coalition government came into power, another round of reform was unleashed on the NHS and the end of the National Programme for IT in the NHS was announced; although its local service provider contracts live on.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:10:50 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[A look back at 2010]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/669/a_look_back_at_2010</link>
	<description><![CDATA[EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr looks back at a year punctuated by politics and rows over the Summary Care Record.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:43:22 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Onwards!]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/667/onwards!</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health has just published its response to the consultation that it ran on the reforms set out in the white paper, &apos;Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS.&apos; It concludes that its critics are wrong and turning back is not an option. Lyn Whitfield reports.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:40:34 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Another view: Neil Paul]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/663/another_view:_neil_paul</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Dr Neil Paul
Our GP columnist wonders why his computer can&apos;t generate more information about his performance.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:30:29 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Power to the people?]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/664/power_to_the_people_tcq</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The government is convinced that publishing more data on NHS services will drive choice and improve quality. But a number of recent reports have cast doubt on the idea. EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr weighs up the evidence.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:06:30 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Making patient control the goal]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/659/making_patient_control_the_goal</link>
	<description><![CDATA[This week it became clear that the government means what is says in its information consultation. It plans not just to give patients access to their records but also to hand over control.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:10:14 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Connelly: NHS must look beyond NPfIT]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/657/connelly:_nhs_must_look_beyond_npfit</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Christine Connelly
The Department of Health&apos;s director general for informatics says that it is time to think beyond the national programme, or risk being held prisoner by it.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:19:39 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Another view: Neil Paul]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/655/another_view:_neil_paul</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Dr Neil Paul
EHI Primary Care&apos;s GP helps a colleague with a slow running computer and wonders why performance isn&apos;t easier to measure and fix.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:44:03 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Live issues]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/653/live_issues</link>
	<description><![CDATA[There were plenty of unanswered questions for primary care IT by the end of EHI Live 2010. But delegates did get some practical glimpses of the way ahead. Fiona Barr reports.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:01:59 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[IT, Minister]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/650/it_minister</link>
	<description><![CDATA[As a junior health minister, Tom Sackville presented the first ever IT strategy for the NHS. He remembers being obstructed by civil servants and baffled by the decisions he had to take.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:18:17 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Give me more]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/648/give_me_more</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Dr William Lumb
Westmorland Primary Care Collaborative is making GP commissioning work; not least because it has spent a lot of time and money sorting out its IT. EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr talks to Dr William Lumb, who is leading its informatics.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:28:44 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Shire force]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/647/shire_force</link>
	<description><![CDATA[John Thornbury
Last year, England saw the coldest winter in more than thirty years. The country ground to a halt as heavy snow closed roads, schools and even hospital departments.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:47:56 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Expert view: Sean Brennan]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/646/expert_view:_sean_brennan</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Sean Brennan
The managing director of Clinical Matrix asks: supporting the clinician in the community - should there be an app for that?]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:40:23 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Reboot NHS Information]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/645/reboot_nhs_information</link>
	<description><![CDATA[E-Health Insider&apos;s managing editor, Lyn Whitfield, takes a first look at the three month consultation paper on a new information strategy for health and social care: &apos;Liberating the NHS: an information revolution.&apos;]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:30:45 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Another view: Dr Neil Paul]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/643/another_view:_dr_neil_paul</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Dr Neil Paul
EHI Primary Care&apos;s resident GP columnist considers some of the lessons to be learned from a local shared records - sorry &apos;viewing of the GP record by authorised third parties&apos; - project.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:16:41 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Putting on the glitz]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/642/putting_on_the_glitz</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The winners of this year&apos;s EHI Awards were &quot;thrilled&quot; and &quot;amazed&quot; - when they weren&apos;t totally overcome. Lyn Whitfield reports.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:39:58 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Uncertain times]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/641/uncertain_times</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Fiona Barr finds that respondents to EHI Primary Care&apos;s survey of strategic health authority and primary care trust staff are worried about the impact of the NHS white paper. They are also fearful that IT investment could be cut and that issues such as information governance will fall off the agenda.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:29:40 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Radio times]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/640/radio_times</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The latest round of NHS reforms, outlined in the white paper &apos;Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS&apos;, have hit morale and will hit jobs. Fiona Barr analyses an exclusive EHI Primary Care survey of the likely impact of the reforms, and talks to primary care experts about how bad things will really be.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:56:36 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Free our data]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/638/free_our_data</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The post-white paper NHS is going to need better information at all levels. But who will provide it? And are IT systems available that are up to the job? Fiona Barr reports.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:26:32 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[IT for primary care]]></title>
	<link>http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/comment_and_analysis/634/it_for_primary_care</link>
	<description><![CDATA[EHealth Insider is holding a round table discussion on the future of primary care, sponsored by iSOFT. Daloni Carlisle considers some of the issues; and invites readers to add their own views.]]></description> 
	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:45:57 GMT</pubDate> 
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