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Glasgow network makes light work of data display

NHS Greater Glasgow has finalised the installation of a high-speed network that links all 19 PCTs and around half of
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NHS Scotland begins national EPR procurement

The NHS National Services Scotland, on behalf of NHS Scotland, has issued an OJEU invitation for expressions of interest for
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The Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS)

The quality and outcomes framework (QoF) is designed to reward practices for the quality of care offered to their patients
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MPs told Wales, Scotland and NI passed on NPfIT

The NHS in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales were each approached and subsequently turned down the opportunity to participate in
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Scottish GPs say GPASS is failing doctors

GPs in Scotland have warned the Scottish Executive that the official Scotland-wide IT system for general practice, GPASS, is failing
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Lothian upgrades Wise radiology solution

Lothian University Hospitals Trust is to upgrade its Radwise radiology information system (RIS) to a new web-based system with greatly
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Edinburgh pulls plug on McKesson implementation

Lothian Health Board has announced that it has terminated its contract with McKesson for the provision of a Hospital Information
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Bedvacs online care home service launched in Edinburgh

Online care home vacancy service Bedvacs has announced that it has launched in Scotland with the launch of Bedvacs in
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Disclosure: a key issue for Caldicott Guardians in 2004

The UK’s 1,000 plus Caldicott Guardians, champions for data protection in the NHS and social care, have a packed agenda
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Reader Comment: ā€˜NPfIT Viewed from Scotland’

The following ‘reader comment’ was supplied in response to recent E-Health Insider reports on the development of the National Programme for
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