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Junior doctor placement website crashing, BMA warns

The BMA have expressed concern that medical students applying online for their first jobs as junior doctors have been unable to
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DES payments to GPs for IM&T work unveiled

Preparation for the National Programme for IT could earn practices £1.33 per patient next year under the new payment scheme for
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New C+B incentives from April announced

Practices will be able to earn approximately £2000 per partner if they can meet government targets on choice and booking
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MHRA implements adverse drug reaction software

The government’s medicines safety agency has implemented new software to improve management of adverse drug reaction (ADR) data reported by
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Harvard medical students learn with their iPods

Harvard Medical School have started offering podcasts of their lectures to their students, allowing them to learn while on the
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Incentives fail to convince GPs on Choose and Book

Only one in three GPs believe the new contract payment for Choose and Book to be introduced from April will
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New timetable for trusts to switch to XML for CRS data

NHS Connecting for Health has outlined a new timetable for changing the way in which data is sent to the
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Missing link

Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH
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Poll shows strong clinical support for IT modernisation

An online poll carried out by Doctors.net.uk found that has found that 80% of doctors say they support moves to
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HIMSS makes European move

Nine European organisations and HIMSS, the US-based Health Information and Management Systems Society, have combined to produce a new conference,
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