The Welsh Government has announced that £3 million will be spent on rolling out a system to enable hospital staff and GPs to share information, including tests and clinical correspondence.

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has completed a phased rollout of a £7 million electronic medical record system.

Internet access through the NHS National Network, the secure broadband network for the NHS in England, was unavailable to many health service staff for several hours today in a major failure.

The future of primary care computing lies in integration with other systems, and in new technologies to let patients contribute to their records, according to experts asked to review the GP IT scene for the 500th edition of EHI Primary Care.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will start extended testing of the new NHS e-Referral Service at the end of the month, after its go-live was delayed last autumn.

NHS England has launched a programme for healthcare pioneers to develop and scale their innovations and new technologies across the NHS.

Advanced Business Solutions has signed a deal with Kronos to provide its workforce management software to NHS trust, while Emis has acquired Medical Imaging, and Northgate has been acquired by Cinven.