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27 June 2006

Anti-fraud software extended to all NHS acute trusts

A pilot scheme that detected nearly £1m of duplicate and fraudulent payments by the public sector has been extended to
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27 June 2006

CfH still sidelining doctors, BMA chair claims

The chairman of the British Medical Association has told his members that “another year has been wasted” in efforts to
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26 June 2006

Lengthy delivery for NPfIT maternity systems

The delivery of new maternity systems as part of the NHS IT programme has stalled, E-Health Insider has learned. Not
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21 June 2006

City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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13 June 2006

InPS and TPP get go-ahead on electronic prescriptions

Two of the major GP system suppliers have been given the go-ahead to roll-out their electronic prescription service (EPS) software
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6 June 2006

Virgin to upgrade telemedicine across fleet

Virgin Atlantic is to install telemedicine equipment on board all of its aircraft after signing a deal with British hardware
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1 June 2006

Online medicines library gets revamp

The National electronic Library for Medicine, which collects online news and RSS feeds on medicines information, is set to expand
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18 May 2006

PACS underway in half of English trusts

Around half of trusts in England either have a picture archiving and communications system “happening, about to happen or happened”,
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17 May 2006

NHS Direct announces cutbacks consultation

NHS Direct has launched a three month consultation with staff on proposals that will cut around 1,000 existing jobs. Reasons
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11 May 2006

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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