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16 July 2007

King’s College upgrades maternity system to EuroKing E3

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has upgraded its EuroKing maternity information system to the new E3 version of the software.
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10 July 2007

Swiss agree compromise e-health strategy

After extensive political wrangling the Swiss Bundesrat – federal parliament – has endorsed a national e-health strategy, based on the
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10 July 2007

Safety technology needed to protect nurses, says RCN

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is calling for the NHS to fund mobile devices to enable community nurses working alone
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9 July 2007

DH details 100 assistive technology projects it has funded

Nearly 100 research projects on assistive technology including telecare and telehealth schemes were funded by the government or the European
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3 July 2007

MPs call for pharmacists to have access to CRS

Pharmacists in primary and secondary care must be given read-write access to the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), according to
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28 June 2007

Johnson named as new health secretary

Alan Johnson has today been appointed as England’s new health secretary by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. The former education secretary
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28 June 2007

CFH sponsors categories in BT e-Health Insider Awards

NHS Connecting for Health, the government agency supporting the NHS to introduce computer systems and services as part of England’s
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27 June 2007

BMJ Health Intelligence launched

The BMJ Group has launched a web-based public health resource including data, cost effectiveness information plus information on local projects,
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26 June 2007

Letter to the PM

In an open letter Robin Guenier, former CEO of the Government's Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency, urges the new Prime
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26 June 2007

BMA conference says C+B limits patient choice

The British Medical Association’s annual conference has condemned Choose and Book as currently unfit for purpose and claimed the scheme
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