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NAO gives positive account of NHS CfH

According to the eagerly-awaited National Audit Office report published today the DH and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible
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Taskforce announced to speed up NCRS

The Department of Health is setting up a taskforce to speed up implementation of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS)
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Secondment buy-out

MP Richard Bacon has been digging for information about the NHS IT Supplier Attachment Scheme. Daloni Carlisle reports on his
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Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the
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Two trusts to use new Eclipse maternity system

Bradford Teaching Hospitals and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trusts are poised to start implementing a new maternity information system which brings
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NPfIT could ‘transform’ drug reaction reporting

Reporting of adverse drug reactions in England could be transformed by systematic collection through the National Programme for IT, according
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NAO says out-of-hours management information poor

Management information on out-of-hours services is poor, caused partly by problems with IT systems and compounded by inadequate telephone systems
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Meet the suppliers: Healthy Software

E-Health Insider meets one GP system supplier which has adapted to the National Programme for IT by reinventing itself.
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US health IT head resigns

David Brailer, the US National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has resigned his position. Brailer who took up the post
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