Dept of Health

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8 May 2014

Tweets measuring quality of care

Healthcare bosses should be careful when using “unstructured” Twitter feedback to measure the quality of a hospital’s care, according to
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6 May 2014

1 week to get support for XP extension

Trusts have been told that they have one week to get Microsoft premier support in place if they want to
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23 April 2014

GPs to offer hotline for patient care

The Department of Health and NHS England will launch a ‘Proactive Care Programme’ in September 2014 in order to develop
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23 April 2014

DH rolls back GP records access promise

The government’s pledge to give patients online access to their GP records by March 2015 has been scaled back again,
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10 April 2014

Lorenzo ‘winning business on merit’

Lorenzo is “probably more perfect" than other patient administration systems in the UK and will win business beyond the North,
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31 March 2014

Changes at the top for NHS England IT

NHS England’s chief technology officer Alex Abbott is leaving the organisation at the end of April and Karen Wheeler will
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25 March 2014

NIB informatics strategy outlined

The National Information Board will release a new informatics strategy for consultation in May, to be used to inform commissioning
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11 March 2014

Trusts need two years’ extra XP support

Trusts will need an extension of Windows XP support for up to two years in order to migrate safely on
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14 February 2014

DH looking to extend support for XP

The Department of Health is looking to provide the NHS with extended support for the Microsoft operating system, Windows XP.
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14 February 2014

National Information Board detailed

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has been made a full member of the Informatics Services Commissioning Group, which
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