7 June 2004

Hospital introduces electronic social care referral

An NHS Foundation Trust has developed a seamless electronic social care referral system that ensures that social workers are fully
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7 June 2004

BT to compensate NPfIT for missed N3 targets

BT has been asked to pay the NHS damages for missing two targets in the delivery of its N3 broadband
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4 June 2004

Talking heads help hearing-impaired take phonecalls

New software being developed may give the deaf and hard-of-hearing a new way of receiving phonecalls – using a computer
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4 June 2004

Pro-BNP spam hits NHS inboxes

A spam e-mail sent to NHS staff urging them to vote for the BNP on June 10 and blaming ‘foreign
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3 June 2004

National programme caught in spinal trap

With less than four weeks to go to the first scheduled release from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), highly
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3 June 2004

NPSA introduces intelligent incident analysis system

The National Patient Safety Agency has awarded the contract for its new analysis and content management to the Cambridge-based software
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2 June 2004

Mixed results for health websites in accessibility survey

The NHS Direct website is not accessible enough for disabled users and contains too many coding errors, whereas the new
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1 June 2004

Health insurance smart card scheme starts in EU

European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are being formally introduced today in 13 EU countries, including Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Estonia and
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28 May 2004

Doubts raised over first NPfIT delivery deadlines

The leak of a confidential BT document, highlighting “material contractual issues", has raised concerns that the first June delivery dates
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27 May 2004

MPs told Wales, Scotland and NI passed on NPfIT

The NHS in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales were each approached and subsequently turned down the opportunity to participate in
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