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TPP develops text messaging service

Primary care and community healthcare IT providers, TPP, have introduced text messaging to work alongside their flagship SystmOne solution. The solution has
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Half of PCT IT staff left in the dark over mergers

A telephone poll of newly merged primary care trusts by EHI Primary Care has revealed that almost half of the 40
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Call for co-operation on new way forward for NPfIT

A call for the ‘old guard’ of health informatics and the ‘new kids on the block’ to work together to
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CfH looking for PCTs to trial summary record

NHS Connecting for Health is looking for primary care trusts to become early adopters for the NHS Care Records Service
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Number of PCTs to be halved

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt this week announced the reorganisation of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England, almost halving the number
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Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH

Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction
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Meet the suppliers: Liquidlogic

EHI Primary Care talks to health and social care software specialist Liquidlogic, one of the suppliers to have thrived under
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Scottish GPs aim for 90% e-referral in 2006

Scottish GPs should be sending 90% of referrals electronically by the end of March next year, according to new guidance
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PCT chiefs warn on reconfiguration plans

41% of primary care trust chief executives think that the planned reconfiguration of their organisations will have a negative effect on
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PCT mergers look set to disrupt IT plans

IT departments of NHS organisations are beginning to feel the impact of plans to shake-up the structure of the health
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