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Have long-running allegations of media bias against the National Programme for IT any basis in fact? IT journalist Michael Cross
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Less than 1.5% of electronic prescriptions seamless

E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic prescriptions issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just under 30,000 have
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Unison condemns offshore medical transcription

NHS trusts that outsource the transcription of medical notes to South Africa, the Philippines and India received a sharp rebuke
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GP system users ‘super’ group to be formed

A new user group covering all the suppliers involved in the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative is being set up by NHS
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Healthy optimism?

E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT's progress, and how far it covers
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Teachers’ TV offers e-learning lesson to clinicians

Medical professions could learn a great deal from the education sector in video-based online learning, particularly from projects such as
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Germany’s team

The World Cup is not Frankfurt's only major event this summer. Phillipp Grätzel reports from ITeG, the German healthcare IT
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City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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CfH gives World Cup red card

NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for NHS IT, has shown the red card to NHS staff trying to
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GPs and their families urged to boycott NHS ‘spine’

GP representatives are advising GPs and their families to consider withdrawing themselves from the NHS spine “as an example to
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