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15 February 2005

Cheap as chips

The Home Computing Initiative provides savings for both employees buying PCs and their employers. Fiona Barr looks at how it
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8 February 2005

GPs say they are not being listened to

Lack of consultation and the threat to GPs existing computer systems are the biggest failings of the National Programme for
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8 February 2005

Pessimism rife among doctors about NPfIT’s benefits

The latest Medix-UK survey, co-sponsored by E-Health Insider, shows that three years into the NHS National Programme for IT confidence
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1 February 2005

GPs urge rethink on Choose and Book

Primary care trusts (PCTs) will fail to persuade GPs to use Choose and Book unless the system is overhauled, according
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27 January 2005

Lifting the burden

E-Health Insider talks to Bob Allen, interim chair of the Information Centre for Health and Social Care, about how the
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20 January 2005

Can you keep a secret?

Subtle changes in the way patient confidentiality in electronic health records is handled slipped out last week. E-Health Insider looks
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20 January 2005

Can you keep a secret?

Subtle changes in the way patient confidentiality in electronic health records is handled slipped out last week. EHI Primary Care
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20 January 2005

Standards stimulate health IT market, say analysts

Government legislation on healthcare IT is encouraging growth and innovation in the Europe, with the National Programme for IT and
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19 January 2005

NAO finds Choose and Book running late

Technical problems, delays in delivering upgrades and failure to engage GPs means the roll-out of Choose and Book, the national
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17 January 2005

Ambulance trust gets network upgrade boost

Two Shires Ambulance Trust, which covers Buckhamshire and Northamptonshire, have installed a new virtual private network which manufactures Redstone say
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