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15 November 2005

Prescription processing to get IT upgrade in April

A new IT system for processing prescriptions is to be rolled out by the Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) from next April,
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15 November 2005

Txts 2 help U quit

Text messages, e-mail and telephone support are to be made available from the NHS to help smokers quit. The new digital approach to
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15 November 2005

US government awards EHR pilot contracts

The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC,
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14 November 2005

Granger says NPfIT in danger of being derailed

The director in charge of the £6.2 billion NHS National Programme for IT has warned that the project is in
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14 November 2005

Decision support helps cut antibiotic over-use

Clinical decision support can help to reduce the inappropriate prescription of antibiotics in primary care, according to a US study.
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14 November 2005

NHS e-health research should focus on patients

Researchers into e-health should be concentrating on long-term change and projects from the patients’ point of view, rather than studying
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11 November 2005

Chester to survey patients on outcomes

The Countess of Chester NHS Trust has signed up to a patient reported outcomes programme run by analytical benchmarking company,
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10 November 2005

Evidence in practice

Sally Hernando from Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire WDC explains a new project to get learning materials about NPfIT into the
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10 November 2005

Granger answers Choose and Book critics

NHS IT chief, Richard Granger, says that low usage of the Choose and Book system is not something he can
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10 November 2005

New accessible PILs for visually impaired

A new service, X-PIL, is launched this week offering patient information leaflets (PILs) in Braille and other formats, such as
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