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28 July 2004

Trusts refuse to pay suppliers’ legacy upgrade costs

The National Programme for IT’s policy on legacy systems is causing confusion among trusts and suppliers over who should pay
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6 July 2004

Patient and clinical advisory boards to be replaced

A new Care Record Development Board (CRDB) is to be created to help ensure NHS IT helps deliver better patient
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1 July 2004

BMA asks for clarity on care record issues

Doctors at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting at Llandudno have demanded that the NHS Care Records System should not
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30 June 2004

ASSIST attacks GP boycott of electronic records

The chairman of the Association for ICT Professionals in Health and Social Care (ASSIST) has condemned GPs for voting not
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11 June 2004

Does Dr Robot usher in new era of metal medics?

From automated call-centre systems to car assembly factories, it seems that wherever you look, a robot is waiting to take
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10 June 2004

Doctors to vote on national patient record system consent

Doctors attending next week’s British Medical Association Local Medical Committee conference are to vote on whether patients’ records should be
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12 May 2004

Scottish GPs say GPASS is failing doctors

GPs in Scotland have warned the Scottish Executive that the official Scotland-wide IT system for general practice, GPASS, is failing
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29 April 2004

Leaked report criticises NPfIT implementation

A leaked report by the National Programme for IT’s former chief clinical adviser has exposed fault lines at the highest
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22 October 2003

Open Source: IT + GP Contract = Heady Cocktail

Roy Lilley, independent health policy analyst and author of “The New GP Contract – How to Make the Most of
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25 September 2003

UK Doctors Still ‘Out of Office’ to Patients Online

Email may be the most powerful new communications tool since the telephone. But despite its clear potential in health, the
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