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Scotland chooses Anite for social care integration

Public sector IT provider Anite and the Scottish Executive have signed a national contract that aims to deliver inter-agency access
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Health tie-in needed for social services info spend

The health department has told social services departments to spend new grants for improving information management on systems that tie
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NHS Direct proposes online social care wiki

NHS Direct could soon be setting up an online social care ‘wiki’ that would allow patients to learn from one
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CfH to examine health and social care links

Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be
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Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’

The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used
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Health and Social Care chief talks about year ahead

Bob Allen, interim chief executive of the new Information Centre for Health and Social Care, has spoken to E-Health Insider
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Croydon PCT merges database with social services

A south London PCT has pooled its patient database with the council social services system in order to improve patient
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Hospital introduces electronic social care referral

An NHS Foundation Trust has developed a seamless electronic social care referral system that ensures that social workers are fully
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NPfIT failing to engage with social care providers

Social services directors have written to NHS chief executive, Sir Nigel Crisp, pointing out that there is no structure for
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Electronic Social Care Record To Be Phased

The December 2004 target for implementing full electronic social care records (ESCR) is not achievable and the roll-out is now
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