6 July 2004

NPfIT nominated for Big Brother award

The National Programme for IT has been nominated for the “Most Appalling Project" in Privacy International’s UK Big Brother 2004 awards
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6 July 2004

Patients need access to electronic records, say academics

Patients can and should have access to their electronic health records, in order to keep them up-to-date and accurate, a
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5 July 2004

Paperless hospital medication pilot launches in Australia

A hospital in Australia has become among the first in the world to install a fully paperless medication management system which
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2 July 2004

Support for Read Codes to end in 18 months

The NHS Terminology Service has announced that the maintenance of Read Codes is to end on 31st December, 2005, to
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1 July 2004

BMA asks for clarity on care record issues

Doctors at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting at Llandudno have demanded that the NHS Care Records System should not
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1 July 2004

Halligan: “Connection” goal of IT reform

Aidan Halligan, deputy chief medical officer and director general of strategic development for the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT),
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1 July 2004

NPfIT launches website, but turns back on talkback

The National Programme for IT has unveiled a new website, www.npfit.nhs.uk, featuring a host of detailed information about the programme and its
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30 June 2004

ASSIST attacks GP boycott of electronic records

The chairman of the Association for ICT Professionals in Health and Social Care (ASSIST) has condemned GPs for voting not
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29 June 2004

Virtual surgery on real patients helps training

Virtual reality training and testing for surgeons that is actually based on scans of real patients may soon become commonplace thanks to an EU
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28 June 2004

Report predicts European growth of hospital e-prescribing

There is enormous potential for expansion within electronic hospital prescribing systems within Europe – a market that is already showing overall growth,
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