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Dr Chaand Nagpaul new GPC chair

Dr Chaand Nagpaul has been elected as the new leader of the BMA’s GP Committee.
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All trusts rated by 2015

All NHS trusts will have an ‘Ofsted-style’ rating by the end of 2015 under new hospital inspection plans announced by
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Birmingham Women’s gets Lorenzo go-ahead

Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has had its business case to deploy the advanced bed management functionality of Lorenzo approved
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Norfolk trials e-prescribing

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is piloting e-prescribing on one of its wards before rolling it out across the
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Senior task force working on IG

A high-level task force at NHS England is working on solutions to information governance issues that are stopping commissioners from
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Barnsley does digital dictation

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has reduced patient correspondence time by 55 days using digital dictation software.
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Manchester reduces patient delays

Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has reduced outpatient clinic delays by implementing a patient flow management system.
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Keogh announces new mortality measure

The UK will become the first country in the world to create a national measure of avoidable deaths, NHS England’s
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Keogh issues death rates warning

NHS England's medical director has warned against using two statistical indicators to claim that 14 trusts killed thousands of patients;
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CCIO profile: Dr Les Boobis

Les Boobis’ parents were disappointed when he studied medicine rather than IT, but he’s managed to combine the two at
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