Release date: 22 December 2005

How the North Eastern Derbyshire PCT has been helping its practices to go live on the National Care Records Service.

Release date: 1 November 2005

NHS Connecting for Health has announced the award of a four-year contract to the University of Nottingham to provide a training and analysis service to develop the quality and use of information in primary care. Further information on the new service, to be called PRIMIS+, is available on the NHS Connecting for Health website.

Release date: 17 October 2005

Version 2.0 of CHART, the clinical information feedback tool for GP practices, has just been released by PRIMIS in conjunction with a suite of flu queries that will enable data to be uploaded in summary form direct to the Department of Health website.

Release date: 4 October 2005

PRIMIS took part in two sessions at the the iSOFT User Group Annual Conference. The conference, held at the Daventry Hotel, Daventry, Northamptonshire on the 7th and 8th October 2005, featured the following sessions from PRIMIS:

Release date: 30 September 2005

Allison Gale, Data Quality Facilitator at North Hertfordshire and Stevenage PCT, and Alan McGurk, PRIMIS Learning Consultant for the Eastern Cluster, have both successfully completed their professional certificate IM&T (Health). Congratulations to them both.

Further information on the professional awards in IM&T (Health) can be accessed on the NHS careers website here.

Release date: 23 August 2005

Several new case studies have recently been added to the Schemes Showcase section on the PRIMIS website.

Release date: 23 August 2005

PRIMIS will be taking part in a session at the twelfth Annual EMIS National User Group (NUG) Conference. The conference, to be held at The University of Warwick on the 14th to 16th September 2005, will feature the following session from PRIMIS:

Release date: 23 August 2005

PRIMIS will be taking part in three sessions at the the CIS and ER and eHealth Conference, entitled "New Frontiers". The conference, to be held at the Novotel London West Convention Centre on the 26th to 28th September 2005, will feature the following sessions from PRIMIS:

Release date: 17 June 2005

PRIMIS will be taking part in two sessions at the Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) Summer Conference, entitled ‘Survive and Prosper - making the most of the new IT in primary care'.

Release date: 20 May 2005

Two features in the 18th May edition of E-Health Insider Primary Care focus on sessions held at the recent PRIMIS Conference, Piecing Together the Future.

Release date: 20 April 2005

Two new articles featuring PRIMIS from Practice Management and EMISUser magazines are now available for you to view.

Release date: 20 April 2005

In addition to the information below about HC2005 you can now view the presentations that were given by PRIMIS at this event.

Release date: 14 March 2005

PRIMIS will be taking part in three sessions at HC2005, the largest, most comprehensive health informatics event in Europe. The conference, to be held in Harrogate from 21 to 23 March 2005, will feature the following three sessions from PRIMIS:

Release date: 26 February 2005

PRIMIS will help PCTs and practices to collect the data needed for this year's Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake Survey.

Release date: 25 February 2005

With the disbanding of the NHS Information Authority (NHS IA) on 31 March 2005, PRIMIS looks back on five years of partnership:

Release date: 26 January 2005

An article on PRIMIS training has been published in Practice Management. The article, which features PRIMIS in Cornwall, has been reproduced here and was first published in the January 2005 issue of Practice Management.