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Tory manifesto re-runs access pledge

The Conservative Party has promised to continue the NHS transparency agenda and to give people “full access” to their electronic
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Hunt extends Challenge Fund by £100m

The government will extend its £50m primary care Challenge Fund by a further £100m, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
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First European deal for HealthVault

Microsoft and Siemens have signed an agreement to licence Microsoft’s personal health record platform, HealthVault, in Germany.
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Lansley may abandon LSP contracts

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider
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NHS staff admit to being DNAs

A survey of health professionals attending an NHS Alliance event found that three out of ten have missed a medical appointment.
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Arctic blast

A think-tank recently ranked its funding forecasts for the NHS from ‘tepid’ to ‘arctic.’ Sarah Bruce asks what that will
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT

The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour's central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited
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Pharmacists warn on personal records

Pharmacists’ representatives have claimed that use of private health record services such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault could risk
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Swine flu website crashes on launch day

The National Pandemic Flu Service website crashed on the day it was launched after the site recorded more than 9.3m
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Safety focus at BCSPHSG conference

Patient safety when using interoperable systems and sharing data will come under the spotlight at the British Computer Society’s Primary
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