NHS boost includes ÂŁ1 billion for IT
Updated: The NHS in England is to have the ‘Five Year Forward View’ fully funded – and the government is to invest ÂŁ1 billion in NHS IT over the next five years, the Chancellor has announced.
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Updated: The NHS in England is to have the ‘Five Year Forward View’ fully funded – and the government is to invest ÂŁ1 billion in NHS IT over the next five years, the Chancellor has announced.
Around 700,000 patients who objected to having their identifiable data shared with third parties will have their wishes recognised by January next year, nearly two years after being offered the opt-out.
A single child health system for the West Midlands will operate from April next year, following the award of a region-wide contract to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust and System C.
Eighteen community and mental health trusts in London and the South have switched electronic patient record systems following the end of their national contracts, with 21 sticking with RiO but moving onto individual contracts with its supplier, Servelec.
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The National Programme for IT has come to an end in London and the South with the exit of the final trust to deploy Cerner Millennium from the BT data centre.
An NHS hospital is using technology developed to monitor drivers in the McLaren Formula One racing team to keep track of the health of seriously ill children.
More than half of patients said it was easy to contact their GP practice using

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