NHS Spine

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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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13 December 2006

Bridgeforward and Quicksilva partner on integration

Software providers BridgeForward and Quicksilva have announced a partnership to focus on integrated connectivity solutions for healthcare. BridgeForward Software, a specialist
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20 June 2006

GPs and their families urged to boycott NHS ‘spine’

GP representatives are advising GPs and their families to consider withdrawing themselves from the NHS spine “as an example to
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25 May 2006

Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the
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15 February 2006

US health IT tsar rejects ‘Google’ style record sharing

The idea of a creating a virtual network that keeps health data in its original store and shares information via
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19 January 2006

NHS CfH says spine now fixed

NHS Connecting for Health, the DH agency responsible for delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT, has issued a
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4 January 2006

Choose and Book’s problems continue

Technical problems caused the national Choose and Book service to be unavailable for most of Tuesday 3 January, the day
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4 January 2006

UCLH plays smart with cards

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has become one of the first big hospital trusts in England to
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1 December 2005

Arresting ideas

Clinicians who work in police custody in four counties in south-east England are being supported by a new software suite,
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30 November 2005

London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS

Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient
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