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North Staffs announces ‘big bang’ implementation

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has started its trust-wide ‘big bang’ implementation of a new iSoft patient administration system,
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London Cerner switch announcement imminent

NHS acute trusts in the capital will next week receive letters from BT notifying them that it has terminated its
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Sealed envelope safety risk raised by BMA

Doctors have raised concerns that Connecting for Health proposals to allow patients to hide some information in sealed envelopes puts
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Ascribe acquires HEIS in £6.5m deal

Healthcare solutions group, Ascribe, has acquired clinical and management information system supplier, HE Information Systems, in a £6.492m deal designed
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Lack of NPfIT involvement concerns nurses

Two leading nurses have expressed deep concern at the lack of involvement of the nursing community in the design of
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Tablet tests

How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and
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Lengthy delivery for NPfIT maternity systems

The delivery of new maternity systems as part of the NHS IT programme has stalled, E-Health Insider has learned. Not
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Less than 1.5% of electronic prescriptions seamless

E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic prescriptions issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just under 30,000 have
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Healthy optimism?

E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT's progress, and how far it covers
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Teachers’ TV offers e-learning lesson to clinicians

Medical professions could learn a great deal from the education sector in video-based online learning, particularly from projects such as
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