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IC and Newchurch partner to provide info services

The Information Centre for health and social care has announced a new partnership with commercial health information consultancy, Newchurch. The
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Salford Council adopt new loan management software

Salford City Council’s integrated community equipment service (ICES) has chosen Ethitec’s ELMS2 software to manage all the wheelchair and equipment
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Information Centre to centralise social care records

The Information Centre is working towards producing a new information system for adult social care records, called the Adult Social
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Quicksilva releases spine compliance software

Quicksilva Software Solutions has released an application that mimics the messages generated by Connecting for Health’s data spine so that
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Disk imaging for largest NI community trust

The largest community trust in Northern Ireland, Homefirst Community Health and Social Services Trust, has installed the Universal Imaging Utility
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Plans for children’s databases criticised

Government plans for children’s databases could end up putting children at increased risk by diverting resources away from frontline services
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Survey shows waning medical support for NPfIT

A picture of declining support among doctors for the National Programme for IT emerges from the latest Medix survey of
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BMA issues new guidance on NHS CRS

The BMA Chairman has written to all BMA members to provide them with guidance on the NHS Care Records Service
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Large scale telecare pilot details published

The Department of Health has identified its target groups and released more information for prospective participants about its telecare pilot
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Scotland mandates online patient data dictionary

A new clinical standards dictionary has been set up by NHS Scotland’s National Clinical Dataset Development Programme in an effort
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