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Kent babies are ‘born to move’

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has launched a mobile app to help parents of newborn babies and young children
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Enter the CCG: on Painting by Numbers

John Lockley feels over-positive tweets and communications to the NHS do nobody any favours. Fortunately, the new e-Referral Service is
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Delay to 700,000 patient opt-outs

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is “extremely concerned” that 700,000 patient objections to having their identifiable data shared
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RCP apps guidance attacked

Recent guidance from the Royal College of Physicians that says doctors should only use medical apps carrying a CE mark
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Hunt back as health secretary

Jeremy Hunt is to remain health secretary following the Conservative Party’s victory in last week’s general election, and the formation
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Special report: electronic document management / scanning

Electronic document management is now a priority for many trusts, but they need to decide how much to scan and
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Weston retains Cerner until acquisition

Weston Area Health NHS Trust has signed a £3.2 million deal to continue using Cerner Millennium until the trust's "imminent"
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Super hospital “catalyst” for paperless

The opening of Glasgow’s new £842 million super hospital has been a “catalyst” towards moving to a paper-free environment, its
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CCGs need IT practice agreements

Clinical commissioning groups must put an IT practice agreement in place with every practice before the end of the year,
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Servelec buys Aura Healthcare

Servelec has acquired Aura Healthcare, a software developer set up by two former senior figures in iSoft (now CSC), with
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