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Leeds CCG seeks feedback on GPs via text

11 March 2014 12:00 AM

NHS Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group is piloting a Friends and Family Test feedback text messaging system.

Nottingham reduces heart patient visits

11 March 2014 12:00 AM

A new clinic at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has helped to halve the number of hospital visits for many patients with heart valve disease.

EHI Intelligence forecasts IT growth

10 March 2014 9:00 AM

NHS spending on IT will increase over the next five years in response to pressures on the health service, and English trust spending will reach £1.6 billion by 2016-17, an EHI Intelligence report has found.

Four South trusts tender for ePMA

10 March 2014 12:00 AM

Four southern acute trusts have tendered for an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system worth £5m-£7m, backed by central funding.

Rotherham asks Monitor to back off

10 March 2014 12:00 AM

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is to ask Monitor to relax its oversight of its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record programme.

US and UK take forward health IT MoU

7 March 2014 12:00 AM

The US and UK are working together on harmonising quality indicators, releasing and using health data, the Blue Button initiative, and the interoperability of electronic patient record systems, under their memorandum of understanding on healthcare IT.

HSCIC to audit data releases by 2 April

6 March 2014 11:52 AM

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will take four weeks to audit the data releases of its predecessor, the NHS Information Centre, following intense public scrutiny of the bodies to which it released patient information.