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21 May 2007

Diabetic patients pilot new shared health records

Diabetic patients in Carmarthenshire, Wales are piloting new electronic health records which will share all information about their care and
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17 May 2007

Safety now number one priority for CfH

Professor Michael Thick, the chief clinical officer for Connecting for Health, explains how the agency has made patient safety its
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16 May 2007

Patients rate choice as a low priority

Choice finished near-bottom of a list of 82 priorities shown to patients in a study carried out for the health regulator,
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15 May 2007

DH ditch junior doctor selection website

The health secretary has announced that the Medical Training Application System, the computerised system used to recruit junior doctors, has
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15 May 2007

Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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11 May 2007

Ten new CBT pilots will include online therapy

Health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, has announced that the government is investing £2m on a further ten pathfinder projects into Cognitive
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10 May 2007

Information Commissioner to investigate MTAS leak

The Information Commissioner has told the Liberal Democrat’s health spokesperson, Norman Lamb that he will be launching an immediate investigation
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3 May 2007

OECD countries need ehealth to reform

The vision of eHealth records being accessible in different European Union countries and beyond is now being looked at by
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27 April 2007

Junior doctors’ confidential details openly displayed

The Medical Training Application Service website will be the subject of a Department of Health investigation after an undercover reporter
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26 April 2007

Second full NAO review of NPfIT to be carried out

The Commons Public Accounts Committee has ordered a second full review of the NHS IT programme to be carried out
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