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Surgeon creates ‘Dr Foster rival’

7 October 2013 12:00 AM

A surgeon has created an online tool that allows people to view the performance of hospitals, measured against five quality domains.

Decision expected on NPfIT exit costs

7 October 2013 12:00 AM

Trusts are hoping for an announcement soon on whether they or central government will bear the cost of exiting National Programme for IT contracts.

Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.

Care.data extractions on hold

4 October 2013 11:00 AM

Extractions of GP data for care.data have been halted while issues around patient awareness of the scheme are resolved.

Use of diagnostic imaging revealed

4 October 2013 10:15 AM

Two in five patients using hospital services in 2012-13 had a diagnostic imaging procedure as part of their care, according to a new report from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

3,000 practices in Emis Web

4 October 2013 10:06 AM

More than 2,000 GP practices in England and Wales have upgraded to Emis Web over the past year, bringing the total number of users to 3,000.

Glasgow’s network headaches get fixed

3 October 2013 4:20 PM

The IT network issue which forced NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to postpone more than 700 patient appointments over the past three days has been fixed.