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NHS Direct starts redundancy talks

7 December 2012 12:00 AM

More than 1,400 NHS Direct staff risk losing their jobs as the organisation begins a redundancy consultation period.

CCGs to commission GP IT this month

6 December 2012 12:00 AM

Clinical commissioning groups are expected to commission GP IT services from commissioning support units or other providers by the end of this month.

Interest high in EMR deployment

6 December 2012 12:00 AM

Fifty trusts gathered at Basildon and Thurrock Foundation Trust’s electronic medical record summit this week to hear about how the trust procured and implemented a bespoke EMR.

Osborne ‘protects’ NHS from austerity

5 December 2012 4:43 PM

Chancellor George Osborne has once again promised to protect the NHS from the worse of his austerity measures; while acknowledging that it will need to make efficiency savings.

New patient platform to kickstart SMEs

5 December 2012 11:42 AM

The new customer service platform being developed by the NHS Commissioning Board will invigorate small and medium-sized enterprises by creating a “market place to beat all market places in healthcare.”