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Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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A few billion between friends?

After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check
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NPfIT refutes claims on unforeseen costs

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) last night issued a lengthy statement refuting claims that it will generate billions of
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Treasury plans £6.8bn NHS savings through IT

Today’s Gershon report, “Releasing resources to the front line: Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency", has said that IT reform
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IT Procurement Strategy Promised By December

The government plans to publish the full version of its procurement strategy for the NHS IT programme by December 2002,
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IT “Certain to be Next Year’s Trick” for Chief Execs

If IT is not high on the NHS trust chief executives’ agenda this year, it will be next year, Chief
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