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9 October 2007

MTAS ‘rushed and poorly communicated’

The Department of Health has officially dropped the use of a national IT system in favour of locally-led recruitment for
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3 October 2007

MTAS online recruitment portal to be dropped

Recruitment to specialist training posts in England next year is set to be handled locally rather than nationally, with the
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17 September 2007

‘No alternative’ to MTAS system likely for 2008

Remedy UK, the group set up in the wake of the junior doctors’ job crisis earlier this year, has called
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13 September 2007

CfH pushing for data standard in GP contract

Connecting for Health wants data standards for GPs to be included in the nGMS contract from next year. Negotiations on
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13 September 2007

MPs say EPRs essential but delivery in doubt

Electronic patient record systems are vital to the future of healthcare in England, but there remain big questions and concerns...
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12 September 2007

RCP launches generic record-keeping standards

New standards for generic medical reporting have been developed by the Royal College of Physicians health informatics unit (HIU) and supported
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4 September 2007

Wait for early SCR results before rollout, says BMA

The British Medical Association (BMA) has told the Department of Health (DH) that it wants to see no further rollout
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31 August 2007

BMA demands apology from Wales Audit Office

The British Medical Association in Wales has demanded an apology from the Wales Audit Office for suggesting GPs will take
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14 August 2007

New Read codes for hospital choice

GP practices have been advised to start using new Read codes to record choice of hospital as soon as possible
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3 July 2007

Millennium problems at Taunton condemned by consultant

Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust have delayed deploying Cerner Millennium software due to ‘severe security problems’, the BMA’s Annual Representative
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