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Early adopters sought for Health Direct service

The Department of Health (DH) and NHS Direct are looking for primary care trusts interested in being the early adopter
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Free online archive of medical research papers launched

Over 500,000 medical research papers are now available for free on the internet, following the launch of the UK PubMed
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Minister announces new telecare guidance on way

  The government is to issue new guidance for social care commissioners to help make telecare more mainstream, it was
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Choice surveys to be given to referred patients

GPs taking part in the choice and booking incentive scheme are expected to hand out surveys from the beginning of
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Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom

Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom,
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Wider engagement with pharmacists could yield benefits

Wider engagement with community pharmacists which could deliver a range of new services with the appropriate IT support and access
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Proposals for wider data sharing to be unveiled

The government is to make it easier for different department systems to share information about individuals currently held on separate
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EPS tops 10m prescription mark

More than 10 million electronic prescription messages have now been transmitted using the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), NHS Connecting for
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NHS is major IT investor in public sector

The government spent more that £12billion on IT across the public sector in 2005/06, with the NHS and Connecting for
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Speaking frankly

Intellect members discuss the financial questions raised by NPfIT at a round table.
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