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CfH stripped of key roles and reorganised

In a major shake-up of health service IT, key leadership roles are to be moved directly to the Department of
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DH and London move on shared services

NHS chief executive David Nicholson is encouraging the health service to make greater use of shared services as London’s primary
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NHS severe computer faults double

NHS Connecting for Health, the health service’s IT agency, has revealed that the number of severe faults in NHS computer
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Clinical Solutions gets a Mentor

Clinical Solutions has signed a three year deal with primary care IT supplier EMIS to integrate EMIS’s Mentor drug database
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Choose and Book makes variable impact

GPs and consultants are still struggling to make Choose and Book work as intended, according to new research carried out
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Probe into lost appointment bookings at Barts

More than 400 patients have had to wait more than 13 weeks, after details of 2,000 telephone bookings were left
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This is the year to come

Sandra Hempel asks leading figures in healthcare IT to look ahead to 2009.
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Review calls for shake-up of pathology

The Department of Health should put in place IT connectivity for NHS pathology services as a matter of priority, a
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Journalists warned of possible ECS breach

Seven BBC journalists have been told that information held on their Emergency Care Summary in Scotland may have been inappropriately
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Lib Dems demand tougher data protection

The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Department of Health to publish minimum standards for the protection of data on
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