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NHS Supply Chain uses voice to monitor stock

NHS Supply Chain, the privatised NHS logistics service now run by DHL, has signed a deal with voice recognition specialists VoiteQ
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IT staff jobs at risk in cuts to NHS Blood Service

Staff who have been developing and implementing a new blood tracking systems for the NHS Blood Service designed to improve
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Telehealth must get smarter, says report

A new report calling for ‘more intelligence at the core of healthcare IT systems’ claims that while the current e-health
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Strike action threat over NHS Direct cuts

  Unison and the Royal College of Nursing are warning they may consider strike action after a consultation into staff
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Online clinical incident reporting cuts admin

A primary care trust has deployed a web-based reporting tool to log clinical incidents in real time. Last month 64% of
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Tower Hamlets PCT cuts down PBC reporting times

  Data mining software has cut down the length of time that one PCT needs to prepare PBC reports from
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EHR opt-out debate “doesn’t matter to patients”

The question of whether patients opt into having their electronic records shared or have to specifically request to opt out
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Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact

NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact,
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Trusts make use of orthopaedic template software

Ferrania UK has announced that eight NHS trusts are now using its LifeWeb TraumaCad orthopaedic templating software. The TraumaCad solution
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NHS Direct staff could face job cuts

Jobs at NHS Direct may be cut by up to a third, and nurses replaced by non-medical call centre operatives,
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