Microtest today announced that the company has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Family Business’ category of Western Morning News Awards. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner being held at St Mellion International Resort, Saltash, on Thursday 16 November 2017. Microtest is one of the UK’s top four suppliers of clinical…
Microtest today announced that it has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘IT Provider of the Year’ category of The General Practice Awards 2017. The prestigious national awards, which have been running for 7 years, attract hundreds of entries that exemplify the talent, dedication and innovation of individuals and teams across all aspects of…
NHS England has launched a Flu Clinic Campaign. Developed in conjunction with NEW Devon CCG, this has been exceptionally well received by clinicians as well as administrative staff in GP surgeries and the initiative has been welcomed by Microtest. NHS England has mapped out five suggested ways in which you can use flu clinics to…
In collaboration with NHS Digital, Microtest are presenting an all-day interactive workshop especially designed for South West CCGs and CSUs on 5th September. The workshop is free of charge and aims to provide vital information to help support the transition to SNOMED CT at their practices. The workshop is taking place at Microtest Development Centre…
Background – Why SNOMED CT? In General Practice, there are currently two different Read code systems for recording patient information, Read v2 and CTV3. Neither of these old systems can meet the requirements of the NHS in the future. The NHS has therefore decided that all primary care providers will move to the SNOMED CT…
The latest inspection results from The Care Quality Commission (CQC) show that Cornwall’s family doctors are among the best in the country. Not only did Cornwall GPs perform well overall, but five GP surgeries in Cornwall have been rated as ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. Of these five outstanding practices, four are using Microtest clinical software…
Staff at Microtest are celebrating this week after scooping two major prizes at this year’s Cornwall Business Awards. The Bodmin-based software company was named Best Family Business and also won the category of Business Innovation of the Year. This is the most high-profile business awards scheme in Cornwall and Microtest were presented with their trophies…
In Autumn 2016, Kernow Health CIC launched an innovative new web-based tool designed to ‘match make’ GP practices and GP locums, saving practices time and allowing them to streamline the process of identifying and booking the locum staff they need. For locums, the new service offers a simple route to identify suitable contracts, which match…
Microtest today announced that the company has been shortlisted as a finalist in two categories of the 2017 Cornwall Business Awards. Microtest has been shortlisted within the ‘Business Innovation of the Year’ and ‘Best Family Business’ categories. Microtest is one of the UK’s top four suppliers of clinical IT systems for GP surgeries. The company…
Microtest, an IT company based in Bodmin, is running an event on March 8th at which it will unveil its innovative solutions to help meet the challenges facing the NHS and improve patient care. The event will take place between 12noon – 4pm at Lanhydrock Hotel and Golf Club. Microtest will present their exciting new…
Background Oak Tree Research are members of the Cornwall Clinical Research Group and run a busy research centre based out of Oak Tree Surgery in Liskeard. Oak Tree Research site uses Microtest Guru to identify patients for its challenging research studies and to feedback patient information in live time to participating surgeries. Introduction Principal Investigator,…
Background Marazion Surgery use Microtest’s Online Services to help patients manage their own care, book appointments online, order repeat and acute medicines with instant feedback regarding their requests and access their own detailed patient records. The Waiting Room 2, which now offers increased functionality over the earlier version of The Waiting Room, is the state…
Microtest has welcomed the announcement that NHS Digital has launched a toolkit of resources for prescribers and dispensers as part of a campaign to promote the utilisation of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD). This is intended to support the strategy to convert up to 80% of repeat prescriptions to electronic repeat dispensing prescriptions. This has the…
Introduction Trescobeas Surgery in Falmouth is an IT-friendly practice which embraces new technology and has an increasing patient list size, with around 40 members of staff. The practice has been using Microtest Evolution and its appointments module since it was first developed. Background Trescobeas Surgery worked with Microtest to help pioneer their Appointments Module, which…
Bodmin-based company, Microtest, today announced that it has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘IT Provider of the Year’ category of The General Practice Awards 2016. The prestigious national awards, which have been running for 6 years, will hold an awards ceremony at the Lancaster Hotel in London on 24th November, where the final…
Microtest surgeries are topping the league tables on customer satisfaction in Cornwall and Plymouth, according to research published on the NHS Choices website. These results are based on the findings from the GP Patient Survey, which is sent out twice a year to around 1.36 million adults who are registered with a GP in England….
Kernow Health CIC have launched Locum Wizard, an innovative new web-based tool designed to ‘match make’ GP practices and GP locums, saving practices time and allowing them to streamline the process of identifying and booking the locum staff they need. For locums, Locum Wizard will offer a simple route to identify suitable contracts, which match…
Cornish company Microtest is opening a new office at the Plymouth Science Park, the largest Science and Technology centre in the South West. The new move will enable the ever growing company to provide even more jobs across the region. The company, whose head office is in Bodmin and who employs over 80 staff, provides…
Microtest, one of the country’s leading suppliers of clinical IT systems for the medical profession, will be sending a team to Scotland this week for a keynote event in the medical calendar, the annual SCIMP & SNUG Conference 2016. Microtest will be giving a presentation detailing their vision for the future of healthcare in Scotland…
SNOMED CT is a clinical vocabulary used within a clinical system to ensure that data is entered into patient records consistently. The vocabulary covers content such as diagnoses, interventions, symptoms, allergies and family history. Currently there are three vocabularies for clinical systems in use across the NHS: Read Codes v2, Read Codes v3 (also known…