Dept of Health

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21 June 2010

NHS ordered to halve management costs

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at
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17 June 2010

SCR evaluation finds few benefits

The final report of a three year evaluation of the Summary Care Record has found that it has yet to
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9 June 2010

DH launches World Cup fitness app

The Department of Health has launched an online World Cup fitness tool to get football fanatics off the sofa and
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3 June 2010

Data published as Whitehall is reviewed

The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts
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1 June 2010

NHS directors earn more than PM

The chief executive of the NHS, Sir David Nicolson, has been named as one of the highest earning civil servants
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21 May 2010

Decision day for Morecambe Bay

D-Day has arrived for University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust on whether it is allowed to proceed with plans
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18 May 2010

GP labels SCR up-load a ‘disaster’

A GP whose practice has just uploaded Summary Care Records has heavily criticised the process, which she claims has been
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18 May 2010

PCTs look for GP agreement to SCR

Primary care trusts are seeking agreement from GP practices to go ahead with the creation of Summary Care Records in
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5 May 2010

DH and BMA say as you were on SCR

Primary care trusts will be allowed to create and upload Summary Care Records so long as GP practices agree, the
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30 April 2010

Cundy: SCR suspension ‘means nothing’

Dr Paul Cundy has said that the Department of Health’s statement about the suspension of the Summary Care Record in
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