27 March 2006

Thalidomide records made accessible online

The Thalidomide Trust, an organisation that supports people damaged pre-natally by the drug, has started an ambitious project to allow
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24 March 2006

Patients view their GP records at home over web

Two patients from a Derbyshire practice have viewed their GP records over the internet from home as part of a
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24 March 2006

NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets

Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure
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23 March 2006

CfH stuck ‘addressing yesterday’s problems’

A leading health economist and advisor on public expenditure to the Commons Health Select Committee, has called for a radical
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23 March 2006

Essex awards BT VoIP over N3 contract

Essex Strategic Health Authority has awarded a contract to BT to link up all of its healthcare organisations’ phone communications
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22 March 2006

Ambulance service reports savings through IT

  East Midlands Ambulance Service is claiming that installing a telephone assessment system and decision support tool has saved it
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22 March 2006

Middlesbrough PCT offers reporting software for free

Middlesbrough PCT has developed a browser-based statistical reporting system for Practice Based Commissioning and is making it available for free
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22 March 2006

Granger tells NHS to be proud of progress

Multinational giant, GE Healthcare, has earned praise from the NHS IT director-general for its rapid progress in deploying picture archiving
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21 March 2006

NAO report will criticise CfH’s failure to win NHS support

The head of the National Audit Office has confirmed that the public watchdog’s long awaited report into the £6.2 billion
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21 March 2006

New deal on system choice for GPs

GPs will be able to choose from a wider range of IT system suppliers under the terms of a new
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