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IT issues for Manchester NHS devolution

Plans to give Greater Manchester control of an integrated £6 billion NHS and social care budget will need to overcome
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Apps win innovation prizes

An SMS helpline for teenagers, an app-based infection library, a tablet-based programme to help children relax before surgery, and an
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Croydon prepares to expand Cerner use

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has completed integration testing for the second phase of its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record
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CCIO profile: Jo Dickson

Leeds Teaching’s CNIO has moved from a reluctant IT convert to a nursing informatics leader during her 20 years in
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Scots NHS register sharing plans slammed

The Scottish government is facing criticism over plans to share information held in an NHS database with other public bodies.
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London air ambulance launches app

London’s Air Ambulance charity has launched a new mobile app to transmit incident information more rapidly and reduce dispatch times
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First wave of CP-IS gathers strength

Three NHS organisations and three local authorities have now gone live in the first wave of a nationwide Child Protection
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Homing in on child protection

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was one of the first to go live with a new Child Protection Information
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Trusts told of cut tech fund 2 awards

NHS England’s second technology fund has been cut by nearly £200 million, with only one-fifth of bidders to receive any
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Norfolk trusts in two-year JAC roll-out

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system from
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