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12 November 2003

ID cards on the way for healthcare entitlement

The government published plans published this week making clear that it wants to introduce identity cards which will be used
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11 November 2003

Gershon says NHS national programme is inherently ‘risky’

Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has described the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
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10 November 2003

CHI praises NHS Direct

The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) has given a positive assessment of the 24 hour health information and advice line,
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7 November 2003

OFT approves iSOFT-Torex merger

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today, 7 November, approved the merger between the two leading UK health software application and
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7 November 2003

Liverpool hospitals praised for “get well soon” e-mails

A scheme which enables friends and relatives to send e-mail greetings to in-patients in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals
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6 November 2003

Nhs.uk can take on burden of information requests

Trusts that deliver up-to-date, accurate data to www.nhs.uk will be able increasingly to shed the burden of answering third party
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6 November 2003

Anglo-Finnish hospital benchmarking initiative launched

Finnish company C-Quest and the UK’s InFocus Health have launched an international hospital benchmarking initiative to comparatively measure and monitor
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5 November 2003

Swansea switches on integrated care records

Adults with learning disabilities in Swansea are set to become the first social services clients in Wales to benefit from
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4 November 2003

Misys Healthcare Systems extends UK operations

Clinical software firm, Misys Healthcare Systems has announced today the opening of its UK headquarters office in Sussex and the
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3 November 2003

South Tees NHS Trust buys spinal injuries record system

The North of England Regional Spinal Cord Injuries Centre at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, part of South Tees
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