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15 January 2007

NHS is major IT investor in public sector

The government spent more that £12billion on IT across the public sector in 2005/06, with the NHS and Connecting for
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8 January 2007

Lord Hunt returns as NHS IT minister

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath is back at the Department of Health and will be taking ministerial responsibility again for
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4 January 2007

A returned exile

Peter Ellis, former CEO and IT pioneer at one of Canada's largest hospitals, explains why he is alarmed at the
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20 December 2006

Two-thirds in Wales access health information online

A survey commissioned by Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has revealed that almost two-thirds of people in Wales
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19 December 2006

Patients to be able to veto spine uploads

Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the
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19 December 2006

Worskshops aim to boost C+B uptake

The Department of Health is to hold a workshop in every strategic health authority in England in an attempt to
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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18 December 2006

Ministerial review to back summary care records

The government is today expected to announce that it will press ahead with plans to begin trials of a national
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15 December 2006

BCS calls for complete overhaul of NHS IT project

A new report from the British Computer Society has called for a fundamental rethink of the NHS IT programme, including
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15 December 2006

NHS ramps up spend on management consultants

 Spending on management consultants across the public sector has reached a record a record £3bn a year, with an increase
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