21 June 2006

Germany’s team

The World Cup is not Frankfurt's only major event this summer. Phillipp Grätzel reports from ITeG, the German healthcare IT
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21 June 2006

City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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20 June 2006

CfH gives World Cup red card

NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for NHS IT, has shown the red card to NHS staff trying to
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20 June 2006

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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20 June 2006

June C+B target for practices scrapped

The June target for referrals through Choose and Book has been scrapped to allow GP practices more time to earn
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20 June 2006

Honour for health informatics technical director

Technical director of Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS), Pete Marsh has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
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19 June 2006

Kent and Medway trusts select McKesson child health

A consortium of acute and primary care trusts across Kent and Medway strategic health authority have selected McKesson’s CarePlus child
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19 June 2006

Bucks PCTs outsource IT support to Lynx

Ninety GP practices and 108 sites in the Buckinghamshire Primary Care division will be covered by a new three-year £600,000
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16 June 2006

NAO gives positive account of NHS CfH

According to the eagerly-awaited National Audit Office report published today the DH and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible
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16 June 2006

Taskforce announced to speed up NCRS

The Department of Health is setting up a taskforce to speed up implementation of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS)
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