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Archive: 2006

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6 September 2006

South Worcestershire signs for Care Enhance Call Centre

South Worcestershire Primary Care Trust has selected an advanced call centre triage system for its GP out-of-hours (OOH) service which it
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5 September 2006

iSoft GP users should not feel pressed to change

GP practices that use iSoft primary care systems should not feel pressurised to move to other systems despite media coverage
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5 September 2006

NAO planning to look again at NPfIT

The National Audit Office (NAO) has confirmed that it plans to carry out a second study of the late-running £12bn National
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5 September 2006

1 in 5 referrals now done via C+B

More than a million referrals have now been made through Choose and Book but four out of five referrals have
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5 September 2006

MPs prescribe ‘rescue’ plan for NHS IT project

The government has been urged to rethink its £12.4bn NHS IT project, and replace its current highly centralised national strategy
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4 September 2006

Publicity blitz for Scotland’s Emergency Care Summary

Scotland has launched a public information campaign about the transition to electronic health records with a leaflet on its Emergency
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4 September 2006

Flashing ‘orb’ to help medication adherence

A US software development company is conducting research to see if using a "flashing orb" on a pill box could
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1 September 2006

Web 2.0 could be used in health e-learning

Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, podcasts and blogs could be quite effective tools in e-learning for health professionals in
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31 August 2006

Implementation dates for hospitals continue to slip

An investigation by E-Health Insider has found that two-thirds of the 22 NHS acute trusts that were meant to be
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31 August 2006

Irish Pharmaceutical Union chooses First DataBank

Drug data experts First DataBank Europe have signed a new partnership with the Irish Pharmaceutical Union to provide its members
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