28 July 2006

Record C+B non-availability, GPC advises

GP negotiators are advising practices to keep a record of when they cannot use Choose and Book in case they
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28 July 2006

Electronic staff record now biggest NHS payroll provider

The NHS Electronic Staff Record is now installed in over 150 sites across England after being implemented of the largest
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27 July 2006

London supplier switch looks closer

A number of well-placed sources told E-Health Insider this week that GE Healthcare had entered into a 90-day consultation with
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27 July 2006

Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside

Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new
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27 July 2006

QicSCRIPT gets drug barcode scanning

System Solutions have announced that they have released a new version of their QicSCRIPT patient medication record software that allows
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26 July 2006

Patient Opinion wins new media award

An online service that allows patients to report their experiences of NHS services has been “highly commended” in the New
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26 July 2006

McKesson wins extension to NWCS contract

Connecting for Health has awarded a nine-month extension to the contract of healthcare IT supplier, McKesson, to provide its NHS-wide
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25 July 2006

Caution urged in interpreting ‘outlier’ data

Ninety consultant teams in England are statistical outliers by the standards used in the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry, according to a data
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25 July 2006

Number cruncher

Fiona Barr talks to Professor Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College's Dr Foster Unit about using hospital data to uncover
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25 July 2006

EPS underspend due to slower rollout

Funding to pay pharmacists for using the electronic prescriptions service was underspent by more than 50% in the last financial
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