Commissioning

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26 January 2010

King’s Fund warns on quality measures

Greater use of quality indicators in the NHS could be a powerful tool to improve care, but could also lead
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13 January 2010

Hitachi completes London portal

Hitachi Consulting United Kingdom has announced that it has completed the delivery of a portal to support commissioning in London.
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14 December 2009

One in three GPs say PBC data poor

More than one in three GPs actively involved in practice-based commissioning rate the quality of information and data they receive
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27 November 2009

Oldham outsources IT to Computacenter

NHS Oldham has outsourced its IT services to Computacenter in a four year deal worth £650,000 a year. The primary
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24 November 2009

Avia acquires Plain Healthcare

Avia Health Informatics has announced the acquisition of clinical decision support specialists Plain Healthcare. Avia Health informatics has been set
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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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19 November 2009

Siemens wins west London LAN deal

NHS Kensington and Chelsea has signed a contract with Siemens Enterprise Communications for a single voice and secure data network.
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12 November 2009

North East Essex tags infants

The Fryatt Hospital in Harwich, Essex, has installed a new infant protection system to prevent children from being abducted. Infants
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2 November 2009

Tories promise records for all

Patient-held records are one of the Conservative Party’s priorities for health, according to plans published today. The party said it would
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2 November 2009

Mind the gap

Brian Derry from the NHS Information Centre reflects on the coming financial crunch and how informatics can help the NHS
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