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22 March 2007

Framework sets out plan for joined up IT

The government has set out a radical plan for joining up health and social care IT systems and sharing information
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21 March 2007

NPfIT ‘needs re-evaluating to be a success’

Connecting for Health must look at three key things – scalability, complexity and availability if the National Programme for Information
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19 March 2007

Cameron says NHS heart replaced by “computer”

David Cameron,  leader of the Conservative Party, has accused the Labour government of ripping out the heart of the NHS
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15 March 2007

DH to lift hospital mobile phone ban

The Department of Health has announced that a ban on patients and doctors using mobile phones in hospitals in England
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13 March 2007

GP representatives consider Choose and Book boycott

A boycott of Choose and Book and non co-operation with the National Programme for IT are among the sanctions to
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12 March 2007

DH acknowledge junior doctor selection ‘shortcomings’

An extremely rapid DH initial review into the heavily criticised online junior doctor recruitment system has within 24-hours admitted that
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12 March 2007

Tories back more collaborative approach on IT

Shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has said that the government needs to start taking advantage of the ‘collaborative forums that are
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8 March 2007

DH orders review into junior doctor recruitment system

The Department of Health has announced it has ordered a review into the Medical Training and Application Service (MTAS) following
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7 March 2007

ExtraMed secure £500,000 investment

Scottish based healthcare IT software developers ExtraMed have secured £500,000 of investment to further develop products for the NHS market.
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2 March 2007

Junior doctors say training website is in ‘pandemonium’

The new web-based Medical Training Application System (MTAS) used to recruit junior doctors has ‘descended into pandemonium’, according to the
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