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24 January 2006

Enfield PCT selects EMIS for super surgery

A North London primary care trust (PCT) has awarded primary care systems supplier EMIS a contract to supply the PCS system for a
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24 January 2006

New medical students to face computer test

  Many students applying to university to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude
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23 January 2006

CfH due for restructuring in DH shuffle

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has signalled that it will undergo restructuring later this year as part of a wider
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23 January 2006

GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’

The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up
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23 January 2006

More focus on research needed in NPfIT, says report

Leading academic medical researchers say that the Care Record Guarantee currently makes commitments that, if strictly interpreted would prevent a
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20 January 2006

Public-private venture ‘to improve access’ to info

Dr Foster, a commercial provider of healthcare information, and the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have formed a
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19 January 2006

Pharmacists to get access to EPS but not CRS

Pharmacists are to be registered for access to the NHS spine to enable electronic transmission of prescriptions but will be
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19 January 2006

NHS CfH says spine now fixed

NHS Connecting for Health, the DH agency responsible for delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT, has issued a
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19 January 2006

Ofcom calls for review of hospital phone charges

A review group is to be set up to look at hospital bedside telephone and entertainment services and see whether
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18 January 2006

US regional information networks predicted to grow

Forrester Research is predicting that 2006 will be the year that new regional information networks and organisations (RHIOs), that will
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