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11 December 2003

NHS Evaluates Windows alternative

Sun Microsystems has announced that it has received notice from NHS IT director-general Richard Granger that its Java Desktop System
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11 December 2003

Walsall and Orion work on heart failure pathways

Walsall Primary Care Trust and Orion Systems have been chosen to produce a national demonstrator system for the electronic support
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11 December 2003

Welsh NHS IT strategy launched, again

In the week that the NHS in England awarded a tranche of major IT contracts, worth £2.7 billion, Welsh Assembly
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10 December 2003

PASA chief pledges co-operation on bar codes

Chief executive of the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA), Duncan Eaton, has formally pledged to work with supply chain
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9 December 2003

NHSmail, a doctor’s tale

Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, who was a computer programmer before switching to medicine, signed-up with NHSmail recently. Here’s his description
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8 December 2003

Granger secures commitment to fund NPfIT

Comment: Jon Hoeksma, E-Health Insider For Richard Granger, NHS IT Director-General, the announcement of the award of three key contracts
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8 December 2003

Widely-tipped Accenture wins North-east

Consulting, technology services and outsourcing specialists, Accenture, were widely tipped to win the local service provider contract for the North-east, Yorkshire
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8 December 2003

London to start implementation immediately

The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s
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8 December 2003

Reid Announces Ā£2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts

Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having
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5 December 2003

Monday looks certain to be C-Day

After weeks of frenzied speculation, much of it by E-Health Insider readers in our E-Health Forums, conjecture on contract award
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