21 November 2006

Survey shows waning medical support for NPfIT

A picture of declining support among doctors for the National Programme for IT emerges from the latest Medix survey of
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21 November 2006

NHS Scotland signs £300m deal with Atos Origin Alliance

A consortia lead by Atos Origin has been awarded a £300m contract to be NHS Scotland’s Information Management and Technology
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20 November 2006

UK practices best for IT to track medical errors

GPs in the UK are well ahead of colleagues around the world in having information systems which track medical errors,
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20 November 2006

Royal Free launches GUM text appointment booking

A new text messaging service allowing patients to make appointments for treatment at a time convenient for them is to be launched
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20 November 2006

Informatics studentship available at Kingston

Kingston University is currently offering PhD studentships in a number of research projects in health computing and informatics subjects available
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20 November 2006

‘Engage, understand and manage’ says NAO report

More engagement, understanding and better management is needed, if the public sector is to successfully deliver new IT services, according
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17 November 2006

Handwritten paperwork “causes delays”

GPs spend too long filling in paperwork by hand, decreasing the amount of time they spend with patients, a survey
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17 November 2006

Nuffield aims for ‘paperless’ hospital finance

Nuffield hospitals, the UK independent hospitals group, has signed a contract with document management specialists Version One to implement its
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16 November 2006

BMA issues new guidance on NHS CRS

The BMA Chairman has written to all BMA members to provide them with guidance on the NHS Care Records Service
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16 November 2006

INPS surgeries to use iPlato text messaging

Primary care software supplier INPS has announced that surgeries across England that use its software will also have the opportunity to use iPlato’s
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