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ID cards on the way for healthcare entitlement

The government published plans published this week making clear that it wants to introduce identity cards which will be used
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Gershon says NHS national programme is inherently ‘risky’

Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has described the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
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CHI praises NHS Direct

The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) has given a positive assessment of the 24 hour health information and advice line,
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OFT approves iSOFT-Torex merger

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today, 7 November, approved the merger between the two leading UK health software application and
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Liverpool hospitals praised for “get well soon” e-mails

A scheme which enables friends and relatives to send e-mail greetings to in-patients in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals
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Nhs.uk can take on burden of information requests

Trusts that deliver up-to-date, accurate data to www.nhs.uk will be able increasingly to shed the burden of answering third party
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Anglo-Finnish hospital benchmarking initiative launched

Finnish company C-Quest and the UK’s InFocus Health have launched an international hospital benchmarking initiative to comparatively measure and monitor
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Swansea switches on integrated care records

Adults with learning disabilities in Swansea are set to become the first social services clients in Wales to benefit from
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Misys Healthcare Systems extends UK operations

Clinical software firm, Misys Healthcare Systems has announced today the opening of its UK headquarters office in Sussex and the
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South Tees NHS Trust buys spinal injuries record system

The North of England Regional Spinal Cord Injuries Centre at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, part of South Tees
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