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NHS trust numbers look wrong on CSC deal

The Department of Health may be re-negotiating a revised £3 billion deal with CSC based on inaccurate figures on how
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NHS Choices allowing Facebook tracking

The Department of Health has come under fire for including code on NHS Choices that allows Facebook and Google to
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Healthcare atlas maps NHS variations

A new NHS Atlas of Variation has laid bare the regional variations in treatment that patients receive based on what
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Call centres urged for GP appointments

GP appointment booking could be centralised in future with national or regional call centres used instead of local practice lines,
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Greenhalgh attacks HealthSpace response

The author of the definitive study of the personal health record portal HealthSpace has attacked the Department of Health’s response
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NHS PHR HealthSpace fails to deliver

Patients have found the government’s personal health record project HealthSpace neither useful nor easy to use and only a tiny
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SCR patient campaign set to restart

Public Information Programmes for the Summary Care Record are to restart before Christmas following a five month suspension.
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Call for clarity on PACS contracts

Radiologists and PACS managers have called for greater clarity about the future of local service provider PACS contracts, which come
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Dr Foster Intelligence to be sold

Dr Foster Intelligence, the provider of information, analysis and communications to health and social care organisations, is to be sold.
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Burns wants you to join the revolution

Health minister Simon Burns has urged NHS IT staff to tell ministers how to bring about the information revolution.
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