The IT Pages of the Devon LMC Site

These pages are not related to the Devon LMC, but they may prove useful to GPs and practice staff.
Have Fun (I did!)……  A special thank you to all those who have contributed to this section of the site!

GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC)

NHS Connecting for Health has published its 'Proposal for GP Systems of Choice.' This proposal is currently under consideration by the Department of Health and, once agreed, will become the basis upon which primary care trusts will continue to support the provision of clinical IT systems for GPs.

The GP Systems of Choice scheme has been developed with strong input from GPs and feedback on the proposal document is encouraged. Please send your comments to the GPSoC team via the dedicated email address gpsoc@cfh.nhs.uk

You can download the whole document (PDF, 123.6kb), or the individual section you require:

• Section 1: Introduction (PDF, 132.8kb) - aims of the GPSoC scheme
• Section 2: Choice options available to GPs (PDF, 56kb) - three options are available
• Section 3: Suppliers included in GPSoC (PDF, 71.6kb) - list of suppliers interested in developing compliant systems
• Section 4: Funding (PDF, 132.6kb) - for IT infrastructure, annual service charges and migration
• Section 5: Compliance levels (PDF, 132.5kb) - minimum standards which GPSoC systems must achieve
• Section 6: Contact and further information (PDF, 133.8kb) - feedback is welcome
• Section 7: Frequently asked questions (FAQs) (PDF, 84.9kb)

Read Codes and Business Rules for New QoF 2006/07

Dear LMC Colleague

The final version of the Datasets and Business Rules for the QuOF for next year has been approved. This includes all the codes, and how they are applied. For each area there are two documents - one for Read 4 byte codes, the other covers Read 5 byte, Clinical Terms Version 3 (CTV3) and SNOMED-CT. This means that there are 42 separate documents in total.

Each document includes the list of codes and then the rules that the extraction software will use and in what order.
The documents can be downloaded as a 'zip' file of Word documents (1.79 MB) from: http://tinyurl.com/z9ogl

Otherwise individual documents in 'PDF' format (c. 100K each) can be downloaded from: http://tinyurl.com/hdzkk

Yours sincerely
Shona Blass - Senior Policy Executive
(Many thanks to the West Midlands Regional LMC for allowing access to this material)

New GMS Contract - QOF Implementation: Business Rules

The business rules on this site are for use with the revised QOF which came into operation on 1 April 2006.  This is the officially published version and should be used for all matters relating to the technical requirements for correctly recording QOF information on the new, revised and unchanged indicators.

The Rules have two versions for each indicator set, depending on whether the GP system uses Version 0 or version 2 of READ codes. The business rules for the QOF year '05/06 remain on the DH website –

Click on the link below to download the appropriate version of the 2006/07 rulesets:

Read Code V 0 (4 byte)

Read Code V2, CTV3, SNOMED-CT

Asthma	Asthma
Atrial Fibrillation	Atrial Fibrillation
Cancer	Cancer
Coronary Heart Disease	Coronary Heart Disease
Chronic Kidney Disease	Chronic Kidney Disease
COPD	COPD
Cytology	Cytology
Dementia	Dementia
Depression	Depression
Diabetes	Diabetes
Epilepsy	Epilepsy
Heart Failure	Heart Failure
Hypertension	Hypertension
Learning disabilities	Learning disabilities
Mental Health	Mental Health
Obesity	Obesity
Palliative care	Palliative care
Records	Records
Smoking	Smoking
Stroke	Stroke
Thyroid	Thyroid

Looking for a particular IT Tool – try this list…

1st Page 2000
A full-powered, Homesite-like HTML editor that lets you choose your own work environment: http://www.evrsoft.com/

Ad-Aware SE Personal
Pulls the plug on adware and spyware; scans your system--including removable drives--for the most common types of advertising spyware and safely removes offending software. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Free software for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on all major hardware and operating system platforms. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Aida32 Enterprise Edition
professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php / Download at http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html

AntiVir® Personal Edition
An anti-virus solution offering effective protection against computer viruses; totally free for individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. http://www.free-av.com/

Apache HTTP Server 2.0.48
An open-source HTTP (Web) server for modern operating systems including UNIX, Linux, OS X and Windows, Apache provides a secure, efficient and extensible server in sync with the current HTTP standards. http://httpd.apache.org/

Audacity 1.2.0
A free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

avast! Virus Cleaner
A free virus & worm removal tool, avast! Virus Cleaner is available free for every user. http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_cleaner.html

BartPE v3.0.32
Helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD. It provides you with a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS file system support. Requires a Windows XP or 2003 installation/setup CD for CD creation. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder

Belarc Advisor
A free personal PC Audit tool, it builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hot fixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

BKReplaceEm 2.0
A freeware string-replacing utility for Windows; a multi-file, multi-line, multi-instance text search-and-replace program; very powerful. http://www.orbit.org/replace/

CD Burner XP 2.2.8
A freeware CD/DVD-Writer program that can write CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW discs. http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php

CutePDF Writer
Creating a PDF with this free software couldn't be easier. All you have to do is select Print from any application, choose CutePDF Printer, and the software saves your new PDF to your hard drive. Requires installation of a PostScript interpreter such as GhostScriptPSconverter.
http://www.acrosoftware.com/

Daemon Tools
Allows you to mount ISO images of CDs and DVDs as virtual CD-ROM drives. http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php

dbSuite Admin Tool for MySQL 1.2
An integrated environment to administer your MySQL database servers and automatically generate PHP code for input forms, edit forms, list, etc. from your table definitions. Requires MySQL and PHP. http://www.dbsuite.com/dbsuite/

Dia 0.94
A diagram creation program designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'. http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/

DivX 5.1.1
Installs the latest DivX video codec for Windows Media Player as well as a very capable stand-alone DivX video player. DivX 5.1.1 is freeware; DivX Player 2.5.2 is adware. http://www.divx.com/

ExactAudioCopy 0.95pb5
EAC is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives (CD ripper). http://www.ExactAudioCopy.de/

Filelink
Gives Windows users the common Unix-like ability to give a single file multiple names. http://www.gdps.dk/products/freeware.shtml

FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast graphical FTP client for Windows with a lot of features including support for secure FTP. http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

FlasKMPEG
A free, easy to use video conversion software utility which converts digital video in the MPEG format to other formats. http://www.flaskmpeg.net/

Flashplayer 7
Tool for viewing rich Internet content and applications in the popular Flash format. http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/

http://www.guildftpd.com/

Gimp 2.0.4
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a freely distributed graphics editing application. http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

Google Toolbar
Increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web and takes only seconds to install. http://toolbar.google.com/

GuildFTPd / Download/Install GuildFTPd.exe
An FTP server for the Windows operating system with many features and support of plug-ins for feature extensions. http://www.guildftpd.com/

hMailServer 3.2.4
A free, open source e-mail server for Microsoft Windows with support for virtual domains, distribution lists, ClamAV, aliases, distributed domains and much more. http://www.hmailserver.com/

IrfanView 3.92
A very fast, small, compact and innovative freeware graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. http://www.irfanview.com/

Java2 Run-Time Environment
Run-time environment for Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE). http://java.sun.com/j2se/

Kerio Personal Firewall 4
A standard bi-directional stateful packet inspection firewall. http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

Mozilla FireFox 1.0 Pre Release
A redesign of the Mozilla browser component designed to be cross-platform and written to be as small and fast as possible while retaining full functionality. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7
E-mail and newsgroup client with IMAP/POP support, support for HTML mail, labels, quick search, smart addressbook, return receipts, advanced message filtering, LDAP address completion, import tools, powerful search, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

MySQL 4.0
The world's most widely used open source database; extremely fast and easy to customize. http://www.mysql.com/

Nvu
A complete WYSIWYG Web Authoring System based on Mozilla/Netscape Composer, this program adds site management tools and other new capabilities. http://www.nvu.com/

OpenOffice.Org 1.1
The leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through an XML-based file format; opens most major formats such as MS Office almost flawlessly and saves to PDF and Flash; has comprehensive help and spellchecking in 15 languages. http://www.openoffice.org/

OpenSSH for Windows 3.8.1p1
A Windows port of the popular OpenSSH server suite that includes ssh, scp, and sftp (clients and servers). http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/

PdfEdit995 6.73
Create PDF files from any application by simply selecting the print command; preview documents, combine files, change page orientation, add “Confidential” stamps, create PDF stationery, adjust image resolution, summarize documents, convert PDFs to several image file formats, create batch print jobs from Microsoft Office applications, and choose from several file-naming methods. http://www.software995.com/

Photocopier / Download/Install Photocopier.exe
Combine your scanner and a printer into a photocopy machine: put a document on your scanner's glass, start Photocopier, press the Copy button and after a few moments your printer produces a copy of the document. http://www.nicocuppen.com/cphome.html

php 5.0.1
A widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://www.php.net/

phpMyAdmin / Download/Install phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-alpha2.exe
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

Pixia 3.0be / Download/Install Pixia30be.exe
Pixia is a painting tool created exclusively for full colour graphics. Originally written in Japanese (this is the English version) so user interface is sometimes a little quirky. http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

PTFonts (Karen's Font Explorer)
Can print a complete specimen (sample of all characters in normal, bold, italic and bold + italic) for any single font, or for all fonts supported by a device.
Requires Visual Basic 6 Runtime.http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptfonts.asp

PdfEdit995 6.73
Create PDF files from any application by simply selecting the print command; preview documents, combine files, change page orientation, add “Confidential” stamps, create PDF stationery, adjust image resolution, summarize documents, convert PDFs to several image file formats, create batch print jobs from Microsoft Office applications, and choose from several file-naming methods. http://www.software995.com/

Photocopier / Download/Install Photocopier.exe
Combine your scanner and a printer into a photocopy machine: put a document on your scanner's glass, start Photocopier, press the Copy button and after a few moments your printer produces a copy of the document. http://www.nicocuppen.com/cphome.html

php 5.0.1
A widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://www.php.net/

phpMyAdmin / Download/Install phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-alpha2.exe
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

Pixia 3.0be / Download/Install Pixia30be.exe
Pixia is a painting tool created exclusively for full colour graphics. Originally written in Japanese (this is the English version) so user interface is sometimes a little quirky. http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

PTFonts (Karen's Font Explorer)
Can print a complete specimen (sample of all characters in normal, bold, italic and bold + italic) for any single font, or for all fonts supported by a device.
Requires Visual Basic 6 Runtime. http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptfonts.asp

PuTTY 0.54
A free implementation of Telnet and SSH (SecureSHell) for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

QuickTime
An easy-to-use application for playing, interacting with, or viewing any video, audio, VR, or graphics file that is compatible with QuickTime, which includes MPEG-4, the new standard for digital media http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/

RagTime Solo
Free professional business publishing software. You don't create text or tables; you create documents. http://www.ragtime-online.com/

RealOne Player V2 GOLD
Free version of RealOne Player lets you play the latest media formats. http://home.real.com/

SamSpade 1.14
Sam Spade for Windows is a network query tool which does ping, traceroute, dig, NSlookup and much more. http://www.samspade.org/

SimpleOCR / Download/Install SimpleOCR.exe
Use this free application to easily and accurately scan and convert paper documents into editable electronic text for use in any application including Word and WordPerfect, with optical character recognition up to 99% accurate. http://www.simpleocr.com/

SmartFTP
Allows you to transfer files across the Internet; at features an Explorer-like interface that is fully customizable and supports drag-and-drop functions.
http://www.smartftp.com/

Space Monger
A tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Just open it and select what hard drive you want to examine, and it provides a to-scale representation of your hard drive's contents. http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.3
Tool to detect, remove and block spyware of different kinds from your computer. http://security.kolla.de/

Startup Control Panel
A control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

StuffIt Expander
Easily expands and decodes all those compressed files you download from the Web or receive in your email; a must-have to expand Macintosh stuffit and binhex files. http://www.stuffit.com/expander/

SwShell
A genuinely useful Windows shell extension; from the Windows context menu (seen when you right-click on a file), SwShell allows you to open any file with notepad, to search for particular string within files, to set the file date and time, and to set file attributes.
http://www.sw4you.com/swshell.php3

Tarma Installer 2.77.1590
Creates fast, compact, and full-featured Windows-compliant software installers for Microsoft Windows platforms, with a small distribution size, a straightforward and clean user interface, and smart install and uninstall behaviour--all with NO scripting. http://www.tarma.com/

TextPad 4.72
A powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. Shareware; registration £16.50 http://www.textpad.com/

TightVNC 1.2.9
A free remote control package which allows you to see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. http://www.tightvnc.com/

TreePad Lite
TreePad is an award-winning Personal Information Manager (PIM) / Database and Word Processor. http://www.treepad.com/

Trillian
Trillian is a skinnable, interoperable instant messaging client. Grab the best IM client available on the Internet today! http://www.trillian.cc/products/overview_basic.php

TUGZip 3
A Windows freeware archiving utility; through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration it supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives as well as BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images, and will create 7-ZIP, BZ2, CAB, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP archives. http://www.tugzip.com/

WinAmp 5.01
Full-featured MP3 and media player. http://www.winamp.com/

WinSCP 3.6.8
An open source SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure SHell). http://winscp.sourceforge.net/

XatShow
Freeware Edition includes everything you need to compress your existing photos to make stunning slide shows and screen savers. http://www.xat.com/xatshow/

xplorer² lite / Download/Install xplorer2_lite_setup.exe
All the shell goodies from Windows Explorer - with none of the hassle, plus all the features you would expect from a powerful dual-pane file manager.
http://www.netez.com/xplorer2/x2lite.htm

X-Setup Pro 6.5 / Download/Install dcXSP-Setup-EN.exe
X-Setup Pro is the most complete "hacker" ever available: nearly 1.500 hidden Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office functions can be controlled with some simple button clicks. http://www.x-setup.net/

ZipGenius 5.51
The file compression utility you were searching for: free and easy to use, and it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives, included RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX and the excellent 7-zip; also includes an FTP Client application and the ability to create self-extracting (exe) zip files. It also accepts plug-ins. http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm

How Just About Anything Works

Its not to do with the LMC, its not to do with me…

it was fun, which was a good enough reason to link it, so here it is -    http://www.howstuffworks.com/hsw.htm

     Just a few computer related articles...
· How a PC Works   http://www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm
· How CD Burners Work    http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd-burner.htm
· How Computer Viruses Work      http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm
· How Ethernet Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/ethernet.htm
· How IDE Controllers Work    http://www.howstuffworks.com/ide.htm
· How Internet Search Engines Work      http://www.howstuffworks.com/search-engine.htm
· How USB Ports Work    http://www.howstuffworks.com/usb.htm
· How Wireless Networking Works      http://www.howstuffworks.com/wireless-network.htm

Hoax Warnings Sites & Urban Legends

· Symantec Anti Virus Research Centre at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html

· McAfee Associates Virus Hoax List at http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp

· Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability at http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.htmlDebunking

· Online and email hoaxes http://www.kumite.com/myths/

· The Urban Legends Web Site at http://www.urbanlegends.com

· Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com

· Datafellows Hoax Warnings at http://www.Europe.Datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm

Word 2000 Supplemental Macros - Link

· AutoCorrect Utility  - Allows you to back up, restore and move AutoCorrect entries.

· Automation Examples

· Find Symbol - Allows you to find and replace Symbols in your documents.

· Font Sample - Generator Generates a sample document of all the printable fonts on your system

· Insert Footnote