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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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Healthy optimism?

E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT's progress, and how far it covers
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GPs and their families urged to boycott NHS ‘spine’

GP representatives are advising GPs and their families to consider withdrawing themselves from the NHS spine “as an example to
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Granger: bricks of the digital NHS coming together

 The pace of delivery of new IT systems to the hospital sector has been "disappointing", says NHS IT director general
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Head of NHS Scotland says doctors key to IT projects

Doctors are playing a key role in the development of IT systems in Scotland and will continue to do so
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LMCs to discuss “threat to civil liberties” from data spine

GPs are to call for their confidentiality concerns over the NHS Care Records Service to be resolved before any further
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Three PCTs decline London’s ‘interim’ community system

Three primary care trusts in London have declined to take the ‘interim’ RiO community system being offered by BT due
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Boots selects Spinal Tap for prescriptions

Boots has announced that it is to use Quicksilva’s Spinal Tap integration software, on top of the company’s existing Smartscript
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Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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US conference gets a reality check on NPfIT

Former National Programme for IT industry liaison manager, Phil Sissons, delivered a transatlantic reality check this week, exposing some of
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