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Patient experience website breaks mental health taboo

Dipex, a charity that runs a number of support websites that contains personal testimonies from people who have suffered from
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Six new companies brought under NPfIT banner

The National Programme for IT have announced six new “enterprise-wide" agreements between suppliers of software and hardware infrastructure and services,
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SMS reminds patients of upcoming appointments

A new system that sends GP appointment reminders to patients over SMS which partially integrates into existing electronic appointment record
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Trusts refuse to pay suppliers’ legacy upgrade costs

The National Programme for IT’s policy on legacy systems is causing confusion among trusts and suppliers over who should pay
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Croydon PCT merges database with social services

A south London PCT has pooled its patient database with the council social services system in order to improve patient
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Fujitsu presents its LSP line-up

Fujitsu Services has provided further details of the members of its Local Service Provider (LSP) consortia line-up, following Monday’s announcement
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London to start implementation immediately

The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s
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Reid Announces £2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts

Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having
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Gloucestershire NHS staff get mobile access to EPR

One of the key issues facing local health communities is how to cost-effectively provide all staff with easy access to
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CSW and Oracle Demonstrate Scalability of Case Notes

CSW Health announced this week it had successfully completed initial scalability tests for its Case Notes shared electronic records system. The
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