South Manchester switches on PAS from CSC
The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust has announced that it has gone live across the organisation with a new patient administration system supplied by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The acute hospital becomes the eleventh large hospital to switch on an iSoft iPM PAS system supplied by CSC as part of the NHS National […]
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Early adopters sought for Health Direct service
The Department of Health (DH) and NHS Direct are looking for primary care trusts interested in being the early adopter site for NHS Health Direct, the DH’s new multi-media health advice service. The government’s 2004 white paper on public health, Choosing Health, set out the intention to establish Health Direct and the DH now plans […]
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Free online archive of medical research papers launched
Over 500,000 medical research papers are now available for free on the internet, following the launch of the UK PubMed Central online archive. UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is an online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. It is the UK equivalent of the American PubMed Central database, which is used […]
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Minister announces new telecare guidance on way
The government is to issue new guidance for social care commissioners to help make telecare more mainstream, it was revealed today. Speaking at the Laing and Buisson Telecare and Assistive Technology conference in London, the parliamentary under secretary for care services, Ivan Lewis, announced that new guidance on telecare was to be issues to […]
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Choice surveys to be given to referred patients
GPs taking part in the choice and booking incentive scheme are expected to hand out surveys from the beginning of this week to measure the percentage of patients offered choice at referral. Practices must hand the questionnaire to all patients where an eligible referral is made between 16 January and 30 March 2007 and patients […]
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Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom
Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom, the leading provider of software to the Irish GP sector. The deal will create one of Ireland’s largest health ICT companies. Under the deal Systems Solutions will acquire the majority stake in Medicom. The resulting […]
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Wider engagement with pharmacists could yield benefits
Wider engagement with community pharmacists which could deliver a range of new services with the appropriate IT support and access to electronic records is being ignored by the NHS IT programme in England, according to a pharmacy body. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has told an inquiry into the future of pharmacy […]
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Proposals for wider data sharing to be unveiled
The government is to make it easier for different department systems to share information about individuals currently held on separate databases. The move is expected to be presented as a pragmatic way to improve the delivery of public services and follows a government policy review of public services, headed by Work and Pensions secretary John […]
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EPS tops 10m prescription mark
More than 10 million electronic prescription messages have now been transmitted using the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has announced. Latest figures from CfH show that 10,061,362 messages had been transmitted by 9 January as part of release one of the EPS project which allows pharmacists to scan prescription details into […]
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NHS is major IT investor in public sector
The government spent more that £12billion on IT across the public sector in 2005/06, with the NHS and Connecting for Health amongst the biggest investors, according to figures published in the Transformational Government annual report for 2006. The figures show that the NHS in England spent £1.4billion, which did not include the £1.1bn spent by […]
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