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3 March 2005

IT input for nurses

E-Health Insider speaks to Sharon Levy from the RCN about what steps NPfIT needs to take to engage with nurses,
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3 March 2005

Patient records on spine to be accessed via PDA

Oracle, who are providing infrastructure for the NPfIT for the NHS data spine, have signed a partnership deal with Medify
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1 March 2005

MPs told ETP plans may jeopardise patient choice

Pharmacist representatives have told MPs that plans to allow GPs and other prescribers to nominate a patient’s pharmacy for electronic
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28 February 2005

First ETP pilot goes live under the national programme

Ling House Medical Centre and Co-operative Group Pharmacy in Keighley, West Yorkshire, have become the sites to use Electronic Transmission
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24 February 2005

National rate NHS phone numbers to be banned by April

The Department of Health has today confirmed that they will prevent GPs, local surgeries and dentists from using national (0870
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24 February 2005

BMA queries commissioning and e-booking link

The BMA has criticised technical guidance from the Department of Health (DH) which it says explicitly links the uptake of
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23 February 2005

Call for conference to debate privacy issues in e-NHS

Eleven senior BMA committee members have written to the association’s chair of council, Dr Jim Johnson, proposing a special conference
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22 February 2005

GPs get a voice

New efforts are to be made by the NPfIT to engage GPs. E-Health Insider Primary Care talks to Dr Gillian
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22 February 2005

Patients use GePmail for self-monitoring

Patients have begun to use a secure internet link to submit their blood pressure and blood sugar results to GPs
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22 February 2005

InPractice Systems set to sign for the South

Fujitsu Alliance, Local Service Provider for the Southern cluster, looks set to finalise contract negotiations with InPractice Systems to supply
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