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Electronic Social Care Record To Be Phased

The December 2004 target for implementing full electronic social care records (ESCR) is not achievable and the roll-out is now
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Poor IT Placing Patients at Risk Junior Doctors Warn

Improved communications systems that reflect the radically changed working practices in hospitals are vital to guarantee patient safety, a new
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NHS to Introduce Own Gateway Reviews

The Department of Health is to introduce its own Gateway Review process to examine major NHS IT and building projects,
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Torex Buys Obs & Gynae Systems Specialist

Torex continued its march along the acquisition trail with the purchase of Protos Limited, the UK’s dominant provider of obstetric
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Basque GPs Suspended over Centralised Data Protest

Two GPs from the Basque Country in northern Spain have been suspended without pay, apparently for refusing to use a
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Mandatory Shared Financial Services Dropped

Plans to save up to £500m a year in NHS administration costs through the introduction of a next generation standardised
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Survey Makes “Compelling Case” for Electronic Records

Findings from an international survey highlighting problems with quality of care and wasted resources make a “compelling case” for electronic
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Motion Media Selected for Belgium ‘Telehealth’

Videophones designed by UK visual technology specialists Motion Media Technology are to be used to deliver ‘telehealth’ services in Belgium
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Online Recruitment Plan for NHS in England

Details of the long-delayed project to put NHS jobs in England online have emerged from the Department of Health (DH).
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Philosophical Response to Blackberd’s Grounding

A philosophical response greeted the news that the Black Country and Birmingham Electronic Records Development project – Blackberd to its
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