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10 June 2008

Connecting for Health to take over NHS Choices

NHS Connecting for Health is to take over responsibility for the NHS Choices portal, the government’s national patient portal for
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21 April 2008

Swindells calls for stronger use of information

Departing CIO at the Department of Health, Matthew Swindells, has stressed the importance of the NHS using information to make
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17 March 2008

Electronic ‘fit notes’ could replace sick notes

Paper-based sick notes should be replaced with electronic ‘fit notes’ according to the first ever review of the health of
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26 June 2007

BMA conference says C+B limits patient choice

The British Medical Association’s annual conference has condemned Choose and Book as currently unfit for purpose and claimed the scheme
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30 January 2007

A world of good

Some of the best ideas for e-health around the World were brought together for the Imagine Cup. Joe Fernandez reports.
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9 March 2006

Unichem connects for Electronic Prescription Service

Pharmaceutical wholesaler UniChem and its retail arm Alliance Pharmacy has announced that it has selected virtual networking company Sirocom to
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22 November 2005

Birmingham PCTs sign up for Pfizer self-care project

Two PCTs in Birmingham are to be the first in the UK to implement a community self-care project in which patients
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29 June 2005

Calls for clarity in spirited BMA confidentiality debate

Doctors queued up to speak on the confidentiality issues raised by centralised electronic records in a lively open debate at the
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20 April 2005

‘State of the art’ review of health IT announced

The National Patient Safety Research Programme has issued a call for a systematic review of internationally available research on the
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11 November 2004

InPS acquires retail pharmacy IT solution

Healthcare IT systems specialist, In Practice Systems (InPS), has announced the acquisition of the UK arm of NDCHealth whose Pharmacy
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