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Online patient engagement tool launched

An online tool has been launched by the Department of Health to enable doctors to access hundreds of pieces of
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma

As the BMA has another fret about the NHS Summary Care Record, the editor of E-Health Insider asks: where are
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O’Brien claims govt may lock-in NPfIT

Conservative health spokesman Stephen O’Brien has accused the government of trying to tie the hands of an incoming Tory government
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PCT suspends TPP mobile urgent care

The second primary care trust to deploy TPP’s urgent care solution has stopped using the mobile solution because of problems
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Hacker fears close NHS Appraisal website

The NHS Appraisal Toolkit has been taken offline for almost a month following concerns about its vulnerability to hackers. The
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EMIS LV repeat service from Pharmacy2U

Pharmacy2U has launched an online repeat requesting service for pharmacists and patients in a partnership with GP software supplier EMIS.
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Lamb sets out ideas for NHS and IT

Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has called for NHS Connecting for Health to be scrapped, the Care Records
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ContactPoint ‘suffers security breaches’

The children’s database ContactPoint has suffered at least three security breaches since its launch, according to an investigation by a
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Paris on the Mersey

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen Logica to provide the Paris system to support child health
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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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