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CSC sheds more staff

21 June 2013 12:00 AM

Another 750 CSC staff in the UK will lose their jobs in the company’s “adjustment” to its workforce, employees were told in an email last week.

Trusts warned to get procurement right

21 June 2013 12:00 AM

Bidders are becoming more likely to challenge procurement decisions they don’t like, UKRC heard last week.

NHS Direct plunges into red

20 June 2013 1:46 PM

The on-going crisis in the roll-out of the NHS 111 service has pushed NHS Direct into deficit just one month into the financial year.

Warrington develops care coordination

20 June 2013 12:00 AM

NHS Warrington CCG and Warrington and Halton NHS Foundation Trust are working with HCS to develop a care coordination service to identify high-risk patients and reduce readmissions.

Forum presents ‘Case for Information’

20 June 2013 12:00 AM

The Patient Information Forum has published a report on the benefits of providing information to patients and carers.

Risk stratification IG rules clarified

19 June 2013 12:59 PM

Clinical commissioners can use only pseudonymised patient data in risk stratification tools for commissioning purposes, new guidance says.

Tech fund to ‘catalyse’ NHS IT – Bryant

19 June 2013 6:46 AM

The £260m fund initially billed as a boost for e-prescribing will be linked to NHS England’s guidance on electronic patient records to “catalyse” the adoption of IT in the NHS, EHI’s Big EPR Debate round table was told.