London

Archive
9 July 2004

E-booking milestone reached

In an exclusive E-Health Insider has learned that the national programme for IT has successfully reached one of its key
Read More
6 July 2004

NPfIT nominated for Big Brother award

The National Programme for IT has been nominated for the “Most Appalling Project" in Privacy International’s UK Big Brother 2004 awards
Read More
22 June 2004

Croydon PCT merges database with social services

A south London PCT has pooled its patient database with the council social services system in order to improve patient
Read More
18 June 2004

Image-sharing over web helps child burn patients

Two west London hospitals, St Mary’s Paediatric A&E, Paddington, and Chelsea & Westminister’s specialist burns unit, have developed an electronic
Read More
17 June 2004

Blair: Choose and Book historic development

Tony Blair has defended the development of the NHS’s Choose and Book programme, the new name for the new NHS
Read More
16 June 2004

Pathology IT future ‘more complex than assumed’

Future developments in pathology IT are likely to be far more complex and unpredictable than current roadmaps are predicting, according
Read More
9 June 2004

Charing Cross introduces robotic drug dispensing

Two newly installed electronic dispensing systems at London’s Charing Cross Hospital, one of which uses robotics, are improving improving the speed and
Read More
3 June 2004

National programme caught in spinal trap

With less than four weeks to go to the first scheduled release from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), highly
Read More
28 May 2004

Doubts raised over first NPfIT delivery deadlines

The leak of a confidential BT document, highlighting “material contractual issues", has raised concerns that the first June delivery dates
Read More
10 May 2004

National programme PACS suppliers announced

The Department of Health has today announced that every hospital trust in England should get a picture archiving and communications
Read More