24 November 2005

Wristband risk to patient safety highlighted

A drive to raise awareness of the importance of patients wearing hospital wristbands should make barcode and RFID technology more
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23 November 2005

EU hospital software market ‘worth £1bn by 2010’

The European market in hospital administration systems will be worth £1.2bn by 2010, according to research undertaken by consulting company
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22 November 2005

Birmingham PCTs sign up for Pfizer self-care project

Two PCTs in Birmingham are to be the first in the UK to implement a community self-care project in which patients
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22 November 2005

Study shows ROI on mobile technology in NHS

A study jointly commissioned by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Connecting for Health into the impact of mobile
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22 November 2005

GPs ‘under no obligation’ to offer choice

GP representatives have told GPs that they are under no obligation to offer a choice of four or five providers
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22 November 2005

Scottish practices indicate interest in systems switch

Almost 20 per cent of practices in Scotland have expressed an interest in switching to a different IT system with
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22 November 2005

South London and Maudsley goes live with JAC

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has gone live across the trust with a new pharmacy management system from JAC
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22 November 2005

User group buys majority of Ireland’s HEALTHone

GP users of one of Ireland’s leading clinical management systems have banded together to buy a majority shareholding in the supplier. Health
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21 November 2005

Key role for NCRS in dual registration

The British Medical Association (BMA) has given cautious backing to proposals to allow patients to register with two GP practices
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21 November 2005

ClinPhone voted best outsourcing deal

Software that enables patients taking part in clinical trials to report data over the phone has won a major industry
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