Dept of Health

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27 January 2016

GS1 demonstrator sites announced

Six NHS hospital trusts have been named as demonstrator sites for the use of GS1 standards and will share £12
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24 November 2015

NHS boost includes £1 billion for IT

Updated: The NHS in England is to have the 'Five Year Forward View' fully funded - and the government is
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7 October 2015

DH helps Bolton off ‘burning platforms’

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has received £8 million in funding from the Department of Health to upgrade its IT systems.
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1 October 2015

NHS Number use becomes law

The NHS Number must be used as a single patient identifier across the health and social care system, under a
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30 September 2015

NHS.uk: ‘digital hub’ plans progress

Plans for a new “digital hub” for health and care services are progressing with the creation of a specialist team
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30 July 2015

Eleven trusts benefit from Lorenzo cash

Eleven NHS trusts in the North, Midlands and East have been approved tens of millions of pounds of central funding
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10 February 2015

Fiddling figures a jail crime from April

NHS directors and senior staff who publish false or misleading information could face a two-year jail sentence as part of
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18 December 2014

IBM preferred bidder for ESR

IBM looks set to run the Electronic Staff Record after being named as the preferred bidder to take over the
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23 October 2014

In for a bad XPerience

Six months after Microsoft ended general support for Windows XP, EHI ran a short survey to find out whether it
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16 October 2014

Two thirds of trusts still on XP

More than two thirds of respondents to a short EHI survey say they have not migrated off Windows XP six
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