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12 April 2007

NPfIT local ownership programme gets put back

Plans for strategic health authorities to take local ownership for shaping and delivering the NHS IT programme have become bogged
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12 April 2007

Report warns of embarrassment over NHSu’s £72m

A report on the now-defunct online NHS university (NHSu) says that the £72m spent on the project would have exposed the
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12 April 2007

DH to pilot care from home in July

The Department of Health has announced that it will be beginning piloting primary care commissioning of telecare in July, with
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12 April 2007

Atos Origin’s £257m DH diagnostics contract suspended

A £257m contract for diagnostic services in North-west and South-west England awarded to Atos Origin last December has been suspended
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11 April 2007

Hewitt launches ‘Choose and Book’ librarians

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has launched ten ‘choice’ library pilots. Librarians in the pilots will be trained to help people
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11 April 2007

DH extend outsourcing contract with CSC

The Department of Health have agreed a £20m deal with Computer Sciences Corporation to extend their information technology outsourcing contract
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11 April 2007

Cayton says legacy systems could have offered more

England’s NHS National Programme for Information Technology will lead to better patient care but greater emphasis on building on existing
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11 April 2007

Voicemails prompt patients to pick up medicine

A message system that enables pharmacists to leave an automatically-generated voicemail for patients whose prescriptions are ready for collection is to be offered
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10 April 2007

New Zealand’s i-Health sues iSoft

New Zealand electronic health records developer i-Health is suing UK-based health software firm iSoft for breach of a 2004 sale
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10 April 2007

Pharmacists reject prescription printing plan

Community pharmacists claim they may still have to print out more than a quarter of prescription tokens when release two
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