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Problems at flagship urgent care service

A flagship urgent care service covering five primary care trusts generated dozens of complaints from patients and doctors in its
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Tower Hamlets drops RiO for EMIS Web

A London primary care trust has opted out of NHS Connecting for Health plans to install the community and child health
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Commissioning simulator launched

Commissioning specialist Humana Europe has launched an interactive training system to help GPs and practice managers in the UK learn
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Innovate or die, NHS told

Lord Darzi of Denham has become the latest minister to urge the NHS not to cut back on technology or
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Our website could do so much more

GP Dr Neil Paul sees the potential for his practice website to be a one stop shop for patients' health
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Extend phone outreach: expert group

NHS Direct and NHS walk-in centres could provide more telephone-based outreach services to patients with long term conditions, according to
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Million tune in for Twitter surgery

Channel Four has run a series of live surgery operations where viewers could directly question the surgeon live via microblogging
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Nicholson warns of ‘unprecedented’ savings

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned the NHS that it may need to make “unprecedented” levels of savings from
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Wandsworth abandons Cerner plans

NHS Wandsworth has abandoned plans to install Cerner Millennium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, saying the system is not suited
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Confed calls for community IT

Community services lag behind much of the rest of the NHS on IT investment, according to the NHS Confederation’s Primary
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