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2 February 2006

NHS Wales signs software deal with Microsoft

NHS Wales has signed a corporate licensing enterprise agreement with Microsoft covering the firm’s latest desktop and mobile computing software.
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26 January 2006

Audit Office report on CfH delayed again

Public spending watchdog the National Audit Office has once again delayed the publication of its report into the £6.2 billion
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25 January 2006

Electronic health card trial to begin in Germany

Germany is to start trialling an electronic health card at the end of April that will contains basic patient data
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23 January 2006

CfH due for restructuring in DH shuffle

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has signalled that it will undergo restructuring later this year as part of a wider
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23 January 2006

More focus on research needed in NPfIT, says report

Leading academic medical researchers say that the Care Record Guarantee currently makes commitments that, if strictly interpreted would prevent a
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12 December 2005

Whole NHS budget under the microscope

Reports today suggest that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be included in a review of all health budgets
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14 November 2005

Granger says NPfIT in danger of being derailed

The director in charge of the £6.2 billion NHS National Programme for IT has warned that the project is in
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3 November 2005

NHS trusts save Ā£4.5m on IT through e-commerce

A group of NHS trusts have predicted that they will savings of nearly 30%  on IT hardware by using an
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27 October 2005

Preventing errors in phone consultations

A reminder to doctors to beware of the pitfalls of using the telephone to communicate with patients has come from
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29 September 2005

After Katrina

An unprecedented mobilisation of information technology could be just what the doctor ordered to prevent a major public health crisis
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