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25 March 2008

Study reveals savings using blood tracking

A new study at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, has found that significant time and cost savings can be achieved
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14 March 2008

NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years

The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to
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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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28 February 2008

Conferencing technology could save NHS £121m

Annual savings of 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and around £121m on travel costs could be achieved if 3% of
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27 February 2008

Charing Cross hospital installs new e-whiteboard

Emergency staff at London’s Charing Cross Hospital are using a new interactive whiteboard from SMART Technologies, which has centralised all
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8 February 2008

Experience information deficit must be overcome

A steering group focused on harnessing the power of public opinion has found that many NHS boards do not have
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24 January 2008

Eighty trusts sign up to ‘scan and save’

The GS1 asset tracking technology in use. Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that almost eighty
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4 December 2007

NHS leading public sector on shared services

A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared
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6 November 2007

Lanarkshire’s mobile single assessment commended

North Larnakshire Council finished second at the Local Government IT Excellence Awards 2007 for their use of its single shared
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31 October 2007

£100K savings on Plymouth data management

The Plymouth Healthcare Community claims £100,000 worth of capital investment savings by deploying a new data storage solution to ensure
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