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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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