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14 August 2007

Altnagelvin hospital system crashes

Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, Northern Ireland was left unable to make bookings for 48 hours last week due to ‘a
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13 August 2007

Wales to launch electronic sick notes

The Department of Work and Pensions in Wales is to launch a trial of electronic sick notes in GP practices.
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13 August 2007

NHS 24 struggles to cope with rise in calls

NHS 24, Scotland’s national health information phoneline, is struggling to cope with a rise in phone calls from patients. The
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10 August 2007

Government refuses independent review of NPfIT

The government has refused to hold an independent review of the National Programme for IT in their response to the
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10 August 2007

Barriers to telehealth spelt out

Barriers and possible solutions to the implementation of telecare and telehealth have been set out in latest advice from the
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10 August 2007

Central Middlesex counts benefits of VoIP

Staff at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, have benefited from a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system from Nortel
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9 August 2007

Lessons learned

Southern England, perhaps more than any other region, has produced a mixed picture of NHS IT modernisation. Senior executives from
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9 August 2007

Contract ‘reset’ underway in the South

The new NHS programme director for the NHS IT programme in the South of England says she is not happy
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9 August 2007

Fujitsu says ‘full steam ahead’ in South

Half of the Southern cluster’s 35 sites have agreed ‘full steam-ahead’ go-live dates to take the initial Millennium patient administration
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9 August 2007

Staffordshire PCTs hit retinopathy target

Malcolm Gray screens patient Three Staffordshire primary care trusts have managed to meet national targets and screen over 28,000 patients
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