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19 May 2009

BMA works with NHS Choices on GP ratings

The BMA’s GP committee has confirmed it is working with NHS Choices to enable patients to rate and review their
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18 May 2009

Professionals start using ContactPoint

Up to 800 health, education and social care professionals are to start using the national children’s database ContactPoint from today,
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15 May 2009

E-Health Insider’s industry round up 15.5.09

This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news from the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate, new products, system deployments and
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14 May 2009

Task force demands ICS overhaul

The government is to change its rules on IT systems for children’s services after accepting that current systems fail to
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13 May 2009

BT advanced payments to be deducted

Health minister Ben Bradshaw has said that all of the £92.8m advanced payment made to BT for work in the
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12 May 2009

IT should make me more money

In his latest column GP Dr Neil Paul argues that general practice needs some more business-based IT solutions.
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12 May 2009

Confed calls for community IT

Community services lag behind much of the rest of the NHS on IT investment, according to the NHS Confederation’s Primary
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12 May 2009

Interim flu line plans unveiled

The Department of Health is drawing up plans for an interim flu line after admitting that its National Flu Line
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8 May 2009

Microsoft does cross-government deal

The Treasury has signed a cross-government deal with Microsoft that will allow licenses to be transferred across the public sector.
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6 May 2009

Pharmacists want to offer biometric ID

Community pharmacists are lobbying to take part in the government’s national identity card scheme by offering a biometric identity service.
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