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11 June 2012

BMA to debate CSS ‘outsourcing’ fears

Doctors are to consider calling for the outsourcing of commissioning support services to be halted at the BMA's Annual Representative
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1 July 2010

ARM doesn’t call for end of NPfIT or SCR

Doctors’ representatives have stopped short of backing calls for the withdrawal of co-operation from the Summary Care Record programme. They
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3 June 2010

Data published as Whitehall is reviewed

The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts
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19 May 2010

QRISK2 goes open source

The heart disease risk assessment tool QRisk2 has been made available as open source software by Nottingham University and healthcare
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29 April 2010

Rotherham physios flex digital pens

Rotherham Community Health Services has introduced digital pen and paper and increased the productivity of its physiotherapists by 35%. The
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19 November 2009

UnitedHealth buys ScriptSwitch for £50m

ScriptSwitch, the provider of drug comparison software to doctors’ surgeries, has been acquired by UnitedHealth UK, for a reported sum
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3 July 2009

Docs call for clinical review of NPfIT

The British Medical Association's annual representative meeting has called for a clinically led review of the National Programme for IT
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8 June 2009

Apprentice sells ad screens to NHS

The winner of the BBC business entertainment series The Apprentice will work for a business selling digital signs to GP
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9 February 2009

New QRISK2 for heart disease launched

A new version of the QRISK software which identifies patients most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been
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25 November 2008

Five priorities for primary care IT

Grassroots GP Dr Neil Paul outlines the five priorities for NHS IT that have been identified in his area.
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