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10 November 2005

EHI cited by Commons Public Accounts Committee

The Department of Health director responsible for the NHS National Programme for IT was taken to task last week by
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9 November 2005

Cameraphones help dieters keep track of meals

Dieters in the US and Canada are photographing their food with camera phones and sending them to dieticians, thanks to
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9 November 2005

iSoft named North West business of the year

Manchester-based supplier of clinical software, iSoft, has been named North West business of the year by the Manchester Evening News,
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9 November 2005

Handwriting rules for controlled drug scripts written off

GPs will no longer have to handwrite prescriptions for controlled drugs as a result of amendments to the Misuse of
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8 November 2005

Digital geographic information deal puts NHS on the map

More than 600 NHS organisations in England are to gain direct access to the Ordnance Survey’s most detailed digital geographic
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8 November 2005

Choose to stay

Most general practices would be better off sticking with their existing systems, says Ewan Davis, chair of the Primary Health
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8 November 2005

CfH to examine health and social care links

Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be
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8 November 2005

First live GP2GP record transfer

The first live electronic transfer of a patient’s record between GPs using GP2GP record transfer has occurred under the NHS
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8 November 2005

IT vital for sustainable health systems, says PwC

Healthcare systems will need a ‘digital backbone’ to remain sustainable in the face of increasing demand, rising costs, uneven quality
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8 November 2005

Parliament told of GPs’ scepticism over C+B

GPs are slowly becoming more knowledgeable about Choose and Book and its implications while gradually becoming more negative about it,
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