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5,000 GP practices offer e-prescriptions

24 September 2015

More than 5,000 GP practices in England offer electronic prescriptions and15 million patients have signed up for the service.

System C buys The Learning Clinic

23 September 2015

System C has bought mobile clinical specialist The Learning Clinic, best known for the VitalPAC vital signs recording software.

Celts agree IT alliance

23 September 2015

NHS Wales and NHS Scotland have agreed an alliance to share technology developments and expertise.

East Sussex faces special measures

22 September 2015

The Care Quality Commission has recommended that East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust be put into special measures and cites access to patient records as an area that needs improvement.

Cambridge put in special measures

22 September 2015

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been put into special measures by Monitor, which says the trust’s e-hospital programme has caused “significant cost increases”, while benefits have not been realised.

Care.data delayed by two years

22 September 2015

Final approval for the ‘pathfinder’ stage of the controversial care.data programme to go ahead will not be given until early next year.

East London exchanges health information

21 September 2015

Barts Health NHS Trust is exchanging patient information in real time with more than 100 practices across East London via Cerner’s Health Information Exchange.