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Lansley outlines Tory NHS plans

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged to cut the cost of NHS bureaucracy by a third at the Conservative
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Cerner and Quintiles partner on trials

Cerner, the US healthcare IT giant, has announced a partnership with Quintiles, the biopharmaceutical services firm specialising in clinical trials
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Readers back reformed NPfIT

The National Programme should not be scrapped although it should be reformed, a major survey by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk
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Survey gives boost to HealthSpace

E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk survey shows strong backing for HealthSpace and none at all for commercial alternatives.
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Put cross here

The world of NHS IT is fractious and unhappy, an EHI / Doctors.net.uk poll suggests.
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I wrote it ten times or more

Journalist Michael Cross reflects on 30 years of writing about NHS IT.
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Lancashire begins e-document project

NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale in Lancashire has begun a project to digitise all its inactive health care records. The primary care trust is
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IMS sponsored case study

IMS Health’s secure private network, Securnet, is being used by primary care trusts to support new services in the community,
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Tweeting medics breach confidentiality

Medics posting gossipy messages and stories about patients they encounter on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are routinely breaching
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Barts 18 week backlog in thousands

A new care record system has contributed to thousands of patients from Barts and the London NHS Trust potentially breaching
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