Screening

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1 May 2007

Nottingham expands diabetic retinopathy service

A £4.5m community-based digital eye screening programme for diabetics in Nottingham is being rolled out to a further six locations,
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25 April 2007

GPs call for halt to cervical cytology screening roll-out

Scottish GPs are calling for the roll-out of a national cervical cytology screening system to be halted because of concerns
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19 April 2007

St Mary’s deploys new colposcopy CIS

St Mary’s NHS Trust London, has deployed a new Colposcopy Clinical Information System from AxSys Technology into its gynaecology department.
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28 March 2007

Additional suppliers catalogue tender released

Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender
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6 February 2007

Security concerns hit Scottish cervical cytology system

The roll-out of a national cervical cytology screening system for Scotland could be delayed after GPs discovered that practice staff
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29 December 2006

Kodak announces mammography archive partnership

Kodak has announced a partnership with the US-based National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) to create new solutions enabling hospitals to
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18 December 2006

Revised plan for ‘sealed envelopes’ published

Sealed envelopes are likely to become available from 2008/9, according to the latest briefing paper from NHS Connecting for Health
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14 December 2006

Heart of England invests in digital retinopathy

Information management and storage specialists, EMC Corporation, have implemented two EMC Centera content storage systems at the Heart of England
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28 November 2006

Thousands call NHS Direct in poisoning fear

Thousands have been in contact with NHS Direct fearing they may have been contaminated by the radioactive material used to
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21 November 2006

NHS Scotland signs £300m deal with Atos Origin Alliance

A consortia lead by Atos Origin has been awarded a £300m contract to be NHS Scotland’s Information Management and Technology
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