DH carrying out ‘confidential’ review of CfH
E-Health Insider has learned that an urgent ‘confidential’ review of the NHS IT programme and structure of Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for its delivery, has been launched by the new chief executive of the NHS David Nicholson. The new boss of the health service has commissioned a review of the £6.2bn NHS digitisation […]
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Europe’s citizens must be engaged on e-health
Efforts to increase the levels of ICT in healthcare will not succeed if average citizens are not involved in discourse about e-health policy, a key group of European informatics professionals is cautioning. The European Health Telematics Associatiuon (EHTEL) issued a paper and companion documents on patient safety and electronic health records at the first-ever World of Health […]
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Half of PCT IT staff left in the dark over mergers
A telephone poll of newly merged primary care trusts by EHI Primary Care has revealed that almost half of the 40 PCTs contacted do not yet have plans in place for their individual IT departments. EHI Primary Care contacted trusts prior to them merging on Sunday and found that most had not got past appointing new […]
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INPS Vision 4 to be London’s core GP solution
INPS’s Vision 4 is to be the core primary care solution offered to practices in London. The decision to opt for INPS (formerly In Practice Systems) as the preferred supplier in the capital is outlined in two letters to primary care trust chief executives from BT and London NHS chief executive David Nicholson yesterday. Patrick […]
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