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28 June 2005

MDU warns GPs to keep electronic records ‘clean’

 The Medical Defence Union has warned GPs that if they do not scrupulously maintain their electronic patient records they may
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28 June 2005

Warning to trusts on NPfIT costs

  The Audit Commission and National Audit Office have warned that the National Programme for IT will be a new
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27 June 2005

BMA chair to lead top level IT working party

The British Medical Association is to suspend its information management committee and replace it with a top level working party
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27 June 2005

Patients need reminders for online depression self-help

  Websites that only offer self-help for people suffering from depression can be effective as those that also offer external clinical
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24 June 2005

Conference call

Were GPs right to vote against electronically sharing patient information at this month's BMA local medical committees' conference?
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24 June 2005

Knowledge base for non-NHS audience launched

  The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has launched a public version of its Clinical and Health
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23 June 2005

UCLH makes switch to Carecast

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go live with the new electronic
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23 June 2005

National A+E system begins rollout in Scotland

iSOFT has announced the first implementation of a Scotland-wide A&E informatics system in NHS Grampian. The Emergency Department Information System
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23 June 2005

System C goes for market listing

IT implementation solutions specialist, System C, which has been heavily involved in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), plans to
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23 June 2005

Beating the bug

Yvonne Peel of CHKS makes the case for better collection of information about hospital acquired infections such as MRSA.
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