Surgery

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10 April 2007

£10m NHS service comparison site to be announced

An online comparison site which will enable NHS patients to compare different health services and shop around for a GP
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4 April 2007

Agfa launch ORBIS EPR to UK market

Agfa HealthCare has launched its proven ORBIS electronic patient record system in the UK for the first time. The software
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28 March 2007

Additional suppliers catalogue tender released

Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender
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27 March 2007

NPfIT is a ‘high quality enabler’ says NHS chief

NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has described the National Programme for Information Technology as “not fundamentally an IT programme, but
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12 March 2007

BMA sits on critical Choose and Book survey results

The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical
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16 February 2007

DH embraces wireless safety technologies

A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by
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9 February 2007

Patients can carry records on secure smartcard

Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB
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24 January 2007

Patients to rate care received using new NHS website

The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs
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28 December 2006

Oasis helps cut surgery waits in Surrey

The Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford says its 12 operating theatre suites are now running at over 90 per
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21 December 2006

NICE announces implementation guidance databases

Two new online databases have been launched by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to help support
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