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8 January 2009

Hart green-lights major Welsh projects

Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has approved the outline business case for the roll out of the Individual Health Record
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8 January 2009

Living Labs event looms

The European Commission is to run a Living Labs Information event in Brussels later this month, to provide information about
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8 January 2009

NHS Direct takes 250,000 festive calls

NHS Direct received more than a quarter of a million calls over the Christmas and New Year break, an increase
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7 January 2009

New media core to pandemic flu plans

A UK-wide 24-hour telephone and web-based service would be the only route for people to get anti-viral medicines in the
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7 January 2009

Software aids planning for pandemic flu

More than 2,000 GP practices are to receive software to help them complete pandemic flu contingency plans. The software, the
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7 January 2009

Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back

Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems
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7 January 2009

US sets out privacy principles for EHRs

The US Department of Health and Human Services has published new privacy guidelines for electronic health records (EHRs), based on
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7 January 2009

GMC rejects calls for inquiry into MTAS

The General Medical Council has rejected calls for it to investigate the IT and selection procedures for Modernising Medical Careers.
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7 January 2009

Yorkshire Darzi centres use TPP

The first GP-led health centre is using TPP’s SystmOne and 20 more Darzi-style centres will go live with the clinical
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6 January 2009

NHS Direct’s 68 revenue sharing numbers

NHS Direct has almost 70 revenue-sharing telephone lines in addition to the 0845 number for its health advice line, a
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