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16 April 2003

Spring Quiz: Try the Easter Brainteaser

Welcome to our Spring Quiz. Here are 20 questions to test your knowledge of IT acronyms, technology in fiction and
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15 April 2003

NHS Direct “Will More than Double” by 2006

NHS Direct is set to more than double in size, handling 16 million calls by 2006. The service is also
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14 April 2003

Digital TV Service Goes To Tender

A national healthcare digital television (DTV) service took a step nearer to becoming a reality this week with the issue
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10 April 2003

Air Passenger’s Remote ECG Makes History

The makers of Tempus 2000 remote monitoring equipment and bmi claimed a place in telemedicine and aviation history when a
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10 April 2003

Budget 2003:Chancellor Stands By Spending Plans

Chancellor Gordon Brown this week reaffirmed public spending plans due to deliver 7.2% growth in NHS spending over the next
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9 April 2003

Rise in Over 55s Using the Net for Health

Increasing numbers of over 55 year olds are using the Internet – and taking a very active interest in online
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8 April 2003

The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say

At HC2003 NHS IT director-general Richard Granger said that he wanted a debate about whether there were viable alternatives to
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3 April 2003

Shared Financial Services Pilots go Live

The first NHS Financial Shared Services Centre (SSC) went live on 1 April, marking a milestone in the provision of
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3 April 2003

Let Pioneers Keep on Pioneering, Says Frank Burns

One of the best known pioneers of IT in the NHS has issued an eloquent plea for trusts that make
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1 April 2003

HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News

Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this
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