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7 February 2006

Texting reduces treatment times for STIs

A six-month study into the effect of text messaging in an STI clinic has revealed that sending notifications by SMS
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7 February 2006

Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire

Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK,
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6 February 2006

NHS primary care director to take questions online today

The Department of Health’s national clinical director for Primary Care, Dr David Colin-Thome, will be online at 17.30 on Monday
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6 February 2006

Hospital admissions predictive software updated

A new version of predictive risk software to help identify patients most at risk of emergency hospital admissions has been
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6 February 2006

Sheffield children’s trust takes Strand for mental health

Sheffield Children’s Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the UK’s largest providers of child and adolescent mental health services has signed
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3 February 2006

EPS pilot to restart after early glitch

One of England’s first electronic prescription service (EPS) pilots has been shut down for more than a month because of
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3 February 2006

Birmingham HSCIC staff protest at relocation

Unhappy staff caught up the relocation needed to establish the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have protested that the decision to
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2 February 2006

Cyber carers

Colin Jervis investigates whether robot medics will ever evolve to the same level as their flesh-and-blood counterparts, in his second
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2 February 2006

Bush renews call for more use of healthcare IT

Health information technology advocates are hailing another call by US President George W. Bush for greater use of IT in
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2 February 2006

NHS Wales signs software deal with Microsoft

NHS Wales has signed a corporate licensing enterprise agreement with Microsoft covering the firm’s latest desktop and mobile computing software.
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