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Hemel explosion hits Northgate hospital customers

Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London, were was working on paper this week after the
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Yorkshire trust procures for new clinical system

South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust has issued a procurement notice for the supply of an integrated clinical information
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Training on the go

Dr Neil Bacon, founder of Doctors.net.uk, on the benefits of online training and how a programme funded by the HPA
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National children’s database gets go-ahead

The government has given the go-ahead for the creation of an electronic information sharing index containing information on all children
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National appointment booking line scales up

The national Choose and Book Appointments Line (CABAL) is now handling about 6000 calls a week with about three quarters
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Choose and Book passes 50,000 mark

More than 6,000 appointments a week are now being made through Choose and Book with the total number of bookings
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Norfolk and Norwich shelves iSoft PAS

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust have shelved the implementation of a new Patient Administration System from iSoft, provided
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Whole NHS budget under the microscope

Reports today suggest that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be included in a review of all health budgets
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Trust sets up employee benefit website

Westminister PCT has launched ‘It’s All About You’, a website for staff personalised to show employee benefits, holiday and pension
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Asthma reviews by phone don’t count for QoF, say PCTs

National arbitrators for the GP contract are to rule on whether telephone reviews for patients with asthma can count towards
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