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Scottish NHS staff get GPS alert devices

3 January 2011 12:00 AM

Mobile tracking and alert devices are to be issued to staff in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to protect them from stalkers.

NHS ‘wastes £1 billion on procurement’

3 January 2011 12:00 AM

The head of NHS Shared Business Services has said the health service wastes more than £1 billion a year by not effectively managing procurement.

Connelly outlines hopes for 2011

31 December 2010 10:30 AM

The Department of Health may be planning to move quickly on plans to let patients email their doctors and get access to ‘unpolished’ data.

2011 “much tougher” for NHS IT

30 December 2010 12:37 PM

Analysts expect the NHS to stop spending money on IT in 2011; unless it can show that technology will provide a return on investment or efficiency gains in a matter of months.

It’s the quiz of the year 2010!

29 December 2010 10:31 AM

Can you remember who promised – yet again – that patients would soon be able to access their health records as easily as their bank accounts?

Pick of EHI 2010

28 December 2010 11:32 AM

One of EHI’s big themes in 2009 was the impending financial crunch on the NHS. Yet the real impact of the need to make £20 billion efficiency savings was not felt in 2010.