Hunt orders 'pause' of all new contracts with GP IT supplier following QRISK errors

[Northerner]

Jeremy Hunt has personally ordered all NHS bodies to temporarily pause negotiations of new contracts with GP IT provider TPP, after Pulse revealed patients may have missed out on statins treatment due to errors in the QRISK2 calculator.

NHS commissioners have been sent the alert from the health secretary and the DH told Pulse that ‘any new contracts being negotiated with [TPP] are under review’ while the issue with QRISK2 is being investigated.

The ordered pause will not affect existing contracts, and TPP told Pulse that they hoped to have resolved the issues shortly.

Pulse revealed problems identified in practices using the QRISK2 calculator in the SystmOne GP IT software, some of which date back to 2009.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinica...plier-following-qrisk-errors/20031922.article

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So, they've managed to both underestimate AND overestimate risk? What a cr*p, poorly-tested system

 

[Ljc]

Makes me wonder what else they have got wrong.

 

[Annette]

I love one of the comments:
"Please Mr Cameron would you permanently PAUSE Mr Hunt by having a pre-Summer Cabinet re-shuffle!!!"
Another case of 'Computer says No', I feel.

 

[Diabeticliberty]

I love one of the comments:
"Please Mr Cameron would you permanently PAUSE Mr Hunt by having a pre-Summer Cabinet re-shuffle!!!"
Another case of 'Computer says No', I feel.

The oaf is a bloody liability. He screwed up Culture Media And Sport I don't suppose even his own mother could disagree that he is screwing up the NHS. Here we go again with my now trademark mantra Jeremy Namespeltincorrectly is a complete dick. I am sorry but I never ever tire of writing that