Dept of Health

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2 June 2004

Mixed results for health websites in accessibility survey

The NHS Direct website is not accessible enough for disabled users and contains too many coding errors, whereas the new
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1 June 2004

Health insurance smart card scheme starts in EU

European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are being formally introduced today in 13 EU countries, including Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Estonia and
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21 May 2004

NHS Innovation Centre may encourage new technology

A new NHS Innovation Centre may soon be developed to allow health professionals, who have new ideas on how to use
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4 May 2004

NPfIT to review approach to stakeholder engagement

The NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) has announced a review of its formal arrangements for engaging the NHS,
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16 March 2004

Agency due to lead NHS IT change management scrapped

The Government is to scrap the NHS Modernisation Agency (MA), the agency charged with delivering the change management programme that
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20 November 2003

E-Health Insider – the first 100 issues

As the E-Health Insider newsletter celebrates the 100th edition, we take the opportunity to look back over highlights of two years
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16 October 2003

NHSmail take-up minimal so far

One year on from award of a £90m contract with Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and six months after its launch
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14 May 2003

NHS to Introduce Own Gateway Reviews

The Department of Health is to introduce its own Gateway Review process to examine major NHS IT and building projects,
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8 May 2003

Mandatory Shared Financial Services Dropped

Plans to save up to £500m a year in NHS administration costs through the introduction of a next generation standardised
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6 May 2003

Online Recruitment Plan for NHS in England

Details of the long-delayed project to put NHS jobs in England online have emerged from the Department of Health (DH).
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