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24 January 2007

Patients to rate care received using new NHS website

The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs
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23 January 2007

Potential purchase of iSoft said to be nearing end-game

Newspaper reports today say that troubled software supplier iSoft is in talks with three final-stage bidders, naming US healthcare firms Cerner
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23 January 2007

Don’t pay for additional N3 bandwidth, PCTs told

Primary care trusts (PCTs) have been told that current N3 broadband links provide enough bandwidth to run all Connecting for
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23 January 2007

GP Systems of Choice procurement on track but late

The GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) scheme looks likely to go ahead – although procurement will not be complete by 1
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23 January 2007

Liquidlogic deploys children’s system at Cumbria

Health and social care software specialists Liquidlogic have announced that their ‘Protocol’ integrated children’s system has been successfully deployed by
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23 January 2007

SNOMED negotiations miss deadline – but continue

Talks to negotiate a new International Standards Development Organisation (SDO) for the clinical terminology, SNOMED CT, missed their first deadline
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22 January 2007

‘Nurse bots’ to be developed by 2010

The European Union is funding scientists to develop ‘nurse bots’, mechanised robots designed to perform basic tasks such as mopping
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22 January 2007

BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments

The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to
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22 January 2007

Council counts savings of telecare for elderly

An audit by Gloucestershire County Council looking at the amount of savings available to them by implementing telecare found that
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22 January 2007

1st Retinal Screen Sponsored Feature

In this feature, 1st Retinal Screen examines the key issues in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening, discusses how they can be overcome
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