1 December 2006

PCTs sign up for prescription clinical support software

Prescription software firm ScriptSwitch have been awarded contracts to provide their ‘real-time’ support software to ten Primary Care trusts. ScriptSwitch
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1 December 2006

Quicksilva releases spine compliance software

Quicksilva Software Solutions has released an application that mimics the messages generated by Connecting for Health’s data spine so that
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30 November 2006

MP “looking into” how NAO report was drafted

Commons Public Accounts Committee member and outspoken scrutiniser of the National Programme for IT, Richard Bacon MP, says he is
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30 November 2006

The next wave

Ben Toth explains how the user's relationship with the internet is changing, in the first of two articles on healthcare
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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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30 November 2006

E-learning helps NHS managers understand finance

New e-learning modules which help managers to understand NHS finance have been developed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).
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29 November 2006

Map of Medicine to pilot PDA access

Map of Medicine are to pilot a PDA-based version of their evidence-based clinical pathway information system for the first time
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28 November 2006

Local sealed envelopes ‘probably safer’

A risk analysis conducted for NHS Connecting for Health has concluded that patient care would probably be safer using locally
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28 November 2006

CfH GP group to discuss N3 speed problems

GP practices’ concerns about N3 are to be discussed at the next meeting of NHS Connecting for Health’s GP Pan
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28 November 2006

Thousands call NHS Direct in poisoning fear

Thousands have been in contact with NHS Direct fearing they may have been contaminated by the radioactive material used to
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