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NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards for the Emergency Care Summary.
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Politicians question major IT projects
Opposition politicians are lining up to promise to scrap major IT projects as the full scale of the coming public spending squeeze becomes apparent. But home secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated that the government plans to press ahead with plans to store communications data and make it available to the emergency services, health and other […]
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Tories would ‘end monopoly’ of NHS Choices
The Conservative Party would remove NHS Choices from Department of Health control and force it to compete on the same terms as other healthcare information providers. In a document promising An NHS Information Revolution to Save Lives, the party says NHS Choices is failing to get adequate information to managers, clinicians and patients and that […]
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Political row over NPfIT: London on hold
A political row has broken out over the National Programme for IT in the NHS, following press reports that it has “ground to a halt.”
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Healthcare Interoperability Preview 3
Stephen O’Brien tells Jon Hoeksma that interoperability is the starting point for future Conservative healthcare IT strategy.
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Tories promise NHS information revolution
The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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Trafford gets Cameron’s vote
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust tell EHI how their BT e-Health Insider award caught David Cameron’s eye.
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Tories would end projects like NHS ‘supercomputer’
Conservative party leader, David Cameron promised today that if his party was elected there would be no more IT projects “like Labour’s hubristic NHS supercomputer”. Addressing the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts in London yesterday, Cameron attacked the Labour Party’s commitment to large scale, centralised systems. “The basic reason for the problems [in […]
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