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19 March 2008

Scotland to pilot new sexual health system

A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in
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18 March 2008

Wales seeks ‘urgent approval’ for IHR rollout

The leaders of the Welsh NHS IT programme are calling for urgent approval of the business case for rollout of
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18 March 2008

Committee backs data protection checks

The parliamentary joint committee on human rights has backed proposals to allow the Information Commissioner to check government IT projects
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17 March 2008

Electronic ‘fit notes’ could replace sick notes

Paper-based sick notes should be replaced with electronic ‘fit notes’ according to the first ever review of the health of
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13 March 2008

ESR set to complete roll-out

The NHS’s Electronic Staff Record is due to complete its national implementation this month, with over 600 NHS organisations across
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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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12 March 2008

Scottish NHS to receive ÂŁ201m for e-health

Health boards across Scotland are to receive £201m to spend in areas such as e-health, primary care and primary and
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11 March 2008

Johnson steps up pressure on 0844 numbers

Health secretary Alan Johnson has stepped up the pressure on practices using 0844 telephone numbers as campaigners draw up a
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11 March 2008

Four pilots for shared social care records

Three local authorities and one care trust are to pilot links between their social care systems and the NHS Personal
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7 March 2008

Cheshire Council says telecare now mainstream

Cheshire County Council has said that it has made telecare services for older people a mainstream part of its service
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