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7 October 2003

National Programme to sign first contract

Tomorrow morning Secretary of State for Health John Reid and NHS IT director-general Richard Granger will announce that SchlumbergerSema offering
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3 October 2003

Hull-York students learn with virtual patients

Students at the Hull-York Medical School have become the first in England to incorporate the use of online virtual patients
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2 October 2003

NPfIT launches patient and clinician advisory groups

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has launched two new consultative groups to help shape the future direction of the
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2 October 2003

Missing IT Funds Threaten GP Contract

One of the BMA’s leaders on IT issues has warned that the new GP contract is at risk unless the
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1 October 2003

First LSP Contract Award Dates Slip

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has confirmed that deadlines have slipped for the award of the
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30 September 2003

Reader Comment: ‘NPfIT Viewed from Scotland’

The following ‘reader comment’ was supplied in response to recent E-Health Insider reports on the development of the National Programme for
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30 September 2003

ETP Pilots Evaluation Challenged

One of the three consortia set up to test electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) says an official evaluation does not
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25 September 2003

UK Doctors Still ‘Out of Office’ to Patients Online

Email may be the most powerful new communications tool since the telephone. But despite its clear potential in health, the
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24 September 2003

Schlumberger to Sell SchlumbergerSema to Atos Origin

The announcement this week that Schlumberger Limited will sell the majority of its SchlumbergerSema business to Atos Origin, will see
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24 September 2003

US Medical Insurance Group to Subsidise PDA Software

A US physician liability insurance organisation, MedAmerica Mutual Risk Retention Group, is to offer its members a subsidy towards the
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