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10 December 2003

PASA chief pledges co-operation on bar codes

Chief executive of the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA), Duncan Eaton, has formally pledged to work with supply chain
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9 December 2003

NHSmail, a doctor’s tale

Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, who was a computer programmer before switching to medicine, signed-up with NHSmail recently. Here’s his description
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8 December 2003

Granger secures commitment to fund NPfIT

Comment: Jon Hoeksma, E-Health Insider For Richard Granger, NHS IT Director-General, the announcement of the award of three key contracts
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8 December 2003

Widely-tipped Accenture wins North-east

Consulting, technology services and outsourcing specialists, Accenture, were widely tipped to win the local service provider contract for the North-east, Yorkshire
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8 December 2003

London to start implementation immediately

The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s
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8 December 2003

Reid Announces ÂŁ2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts

Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having
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5 December 2003

Monday looks certain to be C-Day

After weeks of frenzied speculation, much of it by E-Health Insider readers in our E-Health Forums, conjecture on contract award
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4 December 2003

Competition Appeal puts brakes on iSOFT/Torex merger

The immediate future of the proposed iSOFT-Torex merger was thrown into question today when the Competition Appeals Tribunal ruled that
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3 December 2003

Technology can reduce or create medication errors

  Technology has the potential both to reduce and to create new types of medication errors – and should be
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2 December 2003

Farewell ICRS, hello NHS Care Record Service

E-Health Insider can exclusively reveal that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has ditched Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS) as
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