27 September 2005

New Cross gets electronic blood bank management

New Cross Hospital, part of the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with the latest version of Technidata’s
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26 September 2005

iSoft in £10.6m deal to buy Spain’s Novasoft

iSoft the UK based healthcare solutions specialist, has bought leading Spanish healthcare IT provider, Novasoft Sanidad, in an agreement structured
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26 September 2005

Cancer case repository launched to aid research

A new cancer case repository that is able to extract information from the wide variety of sources in an electronic
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26 September 2005

BNF for Children launches with online version

A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version
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23 September 2005

NHS chief executive calls for investment in IT

NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has called on trusts to make greater use of shared back office functions such as
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23 September 2005

PCTs not funding essential practice upgrades

GP representatives are collecting information about IT funding problems faced by general practices after anecdotal reports that GPs are being
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22 September 2005

CfH could face a £10 billion funding gap

 A new consultation paper produced by an influential health computing industry group has raised concerns about the medium-term funding of
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22 September 2005

Wales publishes QoF scores

Wales has become the last of the four UK countries to publish Quality and Outcomes Framework results for its practices.
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22 September 2005

New analysis tool helps pinpoint deprivation

Huddersfield’s primary care trusts and global information solutions specialists, Experian, this week claimed a health informatics ‘first’ with the publication
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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