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Basque GPs Suspended over Centralised Data Protest

Two GPs from the Basque Country in northern Spain have been suspended without pay, apparently for refusing to use a
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Healthcare IT and Devolution

The health services in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were detached from the English mother ship as part of devolution.
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The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say 2

Our first batch of readers’ comments on the National Programme for IT in the NHS brought some interesting replies. The
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New Forum to Support Interoperability Standards

A new Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF) has been set up to actively support the design of interoperability standards covering
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“Rocky Road” to e-Procurement Predicted

European healthcare institutions show a growing willingness to embrace electronic procurement of supplies but there will be a rocky road
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Joining Up Is Hard To Do

Technology has an important role to play in the realising the ideal of “joined up” public services, but progress has
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The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say

At HC2003 NHS IT director-general Richard Granger said that he wanted a debate about whether there were viable alternatives to
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Shared Financial Services Pilots go Live

The first NHS Financial Shared Services Centre (SSC) went live on 1 April, marking a milestone in the provision of
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HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News

Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this
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eMatron – the Ultimate Nursing Boss

With no role out of bounds for the IT revolution, a US healthcare technology provider has devised electronic decision support
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