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GPs to continue to get financial incentives for C+B

The national incentive scheme to reward GP practices for using Choose and Book is to continue for 2007/8, following months
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Safety now number one priority for CfH

Professor Michael Thick, the chief clinical officer for Connecting for Health, explains how the agency has made patient safety its
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CSE Servelec to upgrade Scottish mental health system

CSE Servelec has been commissioned by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland to upgrade its integrated information management project (IMP)
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Researchers warn NPfIT delays risking patient safety

Lack of effective communication and delivery delays are leaving trusts disenfranchised and weakening local commitment to rolling out the National
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Ipswich struggles with iSoft order communications glitches

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, has experienced persistent problems getting its new Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)-provided iSoft iPM patient administration system and
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IBA offer recommended by iSoft board

Australian health information firm IBA Health Ltd. has agreed to buy the UK’s iSoft Group for about £140m, plus debt.
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Patients rate choice as a low priority

Choice finished near-bottom of a list of 82 priorities shown to patients in a study carried out for the health regulator,
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IBA Health set to table £230m iSoft offer

Australia’s IBA Health is tonight expected to make a £230m offer to buy its far larger UK rival iSoft, reports
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GPs to be offered 8MB N3 links

GP practices may be able to upgrade their N3 connection to receive bandwidth of up to 8MB from later this
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Network boss says N3 is ‘amazing’

Stuart Hill, chief executive officer of N3 and Len Chard, Connecting for Health's programme director for N3, are adamant that
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