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11 March 2010

New CSC deal hinges on Morecambe Bay

A deal to cut hundreds of millions of pounds from the National Programme for IT in the NHS by cutting
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10 March 2010

Want to quit? There’s an app for that

The Department of Health has launched an iPhone application to help people stop smoking. The application was launched today by
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25 February 2010

Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS

The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in
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15 February 2010

Ten more PCTs given OK on EPS R2

Ten additional primary care trusts are to be given permission to go ahead with release two of the Electronic Prescription
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12 February 2010

Half of GP practices judged by patients

More than 50% of GP practices have now been commented on or rated by patients on NHS Choices, according to
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11 February 2010

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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5 February 2010

Trusts ‘treat IG return as box-ticking’

Too many trusts are using the Information Governance Toolkit return as a tick-box exercise rather than as a means to ensure
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3 February 2010

Telehealth put on the (Google) map

More than a third of primary care trusts are involved with telehealth programmes, according to the Department of Health‘s Telecare
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28 January 2010

‘Four more years’ for McKesson

The Department of Health is negotiating four year support deals for the 21 NHS hospital trusts running McKesson patient administration
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19 January 2010

Call for Toolkit discharge standards

NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension
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