Scotland

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27 February 2007

Scottish GPs to start issuing barcoded scrips

Scotland’s electronic transmission of prescriptions project is to get underway in April when GP practices will begin to produce barcoded
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6 February 2007

Security concerns hit Scottish cervical cytology system

The roll-out of a national cervical cytology screening system for Scotland could be delayed after GPs discovered that practice staff
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15 January 2007

NHS is major IT investor in public sector

The government spent more that £12billion on IT across the public sector in 2005/06, with the NHS and Connecting for
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4 January 2007

Use of NHS Direct website accelerates

NHS Direct’s website had record traffic figures last year, with 13.5m users of the website, an increase of around 30%
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29 December 2006

Minister praises NHS 24’s ‘tireless’ staff

Scotland’s deputy health minister has praised staff who keep the healthcare telephone advice line running over Christmas and the New
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19 December 2006

Patients to be able to veto spine uploads

Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the
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13 December 2006

Bridgeforward and Quicksilva partner on integration

Software providers BridgeForward and Quicksilva have announced a partnership to focus on integrated connectivity solutions for healthcare. BridgeForward Software, a specialist
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4 December 2006

Kodak to implement PACS in Tuscany

Kodak has agreed a five year deal worth €20m to install its Carestream software in the south-east region of Tuscany,
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30 November 2006

Report must ‘signal the end of the line for GPASS’

A long-awaited independent report on GPASS ‘must signal the end of the line’ for Scotland’s most commonly used GP system,
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24 November 2006

Scotland’s NHS in the dark on IM&T spend

The NHS in Scotland does not know exactly how much it spends on IM&T overall, according to a major report
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