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15 April 2008

NHS Choices partners with UK online centres

NHS Choices, the health information website, has partnered with UK online centres to help people without IT access or web
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11 April 2008

Integrated children’s system failed to prove itself

The Integrated Children’s System, the electronic case record system for social care, has failed to prove itself fit for purpose
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7 April 2008

Pharmacists may get access to patient care records

The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved.
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4 April 2008

EHI’s industry news roundup 04.04.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 4 April 2008 featuring supplier news and events. Supplier news
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3 April 2008

Tories would end projects like NHS ‘supercomputer’

Conservative party leader, David Cameron promised today that if his party was elected there would be no more IT projects
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3 April 2008

Sweden launches national e-health strategy

The Swedish government has launched a new citizen-centred national e-health strategy designed around ensuring the provision of information to where
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2 April 2008

Patient Tsar backs tougher data theft laws

The chair of the Department of Health’s National Information Governance Board, and influential patient representative, Harry Cayton, has joined the
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1 April 2008

Using IT to deliver on free choice

Free choice at referral takes effect this month. Fiona Barr looks at how IT will be used to deliver this
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20 March 2008

German government unveils smartcard costs

The German ministry of health has issued details on recent and estimated future costs of the healthcare smartcard project in
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19 March 2008

ÂŁ8m to be spent on telehealth in Scotland

The Scottish government has announced that an extra £8m is to be spent on telecare over the next two years.
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