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How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to say about the major e-health issues.
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Conservatives call for NHS IT review
Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, has announced that a future Conservative government would commission an urgent review of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The Conservatives say that the timetable for the national programme has already slipped and "fear that it may become the latest in a long list of government […]
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Data spine key to Patient’s Passport, say Tories
Under a Conservative government the NHS Care Record Service would become the key tool enabling the introduction of the proposed Patient’s Passport initiative under which patients could choose between a range of health service providers taking their funding with them. In an interview with E-Health Insider shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley, said that a future […]
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