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DH found guilty on MTAS data protection breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office has found the Department of Health in breach of the Data Protection Act following an investigation
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BMA votes for non co-operation on central records

Doctors have voted for a public inquiry into NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) and have called on the BMA to advise
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Junior doctors’ confidential details openly displayed

The Medical Training Application Service website will be the subject of a Department of Health investigation after an undercover reporter
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Metal medicine

E-Health Insider looks at the continuing work into robotics in healthcare being carried out by Imperial College, London.
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Come together

As mobile devices start taking on more than one function, what implications will there be for healthcare? Colin Jervis of
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Unison condemns offshore medical transcription

NHS trusts that outsource the transcription of medical notes to South Africa, the Philippines and India received a sharp rebuke
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Trouble continues over online doctor recruitment

Senior clinicians have expressed concerns that the online selection process for student doctors looking for their first placement is not
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Junior doctor placement website crashing, BMA warns

The BMA have expressed concern that medical students applying online for their first jobs as junior doctors have been unable to
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Harvard medical students learn with their iPods

Harvard Medical School have started offering podcasts of their lectures to their students, allowing them to learn while on the
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New medical students to face computer test

  Many students applying to university to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude
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