28 September 2006

Accenture pulls out of national programme

Accenture has departed from the NHS National Programme for IT, walking away from two contracts worth a total of more than £2bn.  The
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28 September 2006

MHRA target UK illegal drug websites

  The Medicines Healthcare and Regulatory Authority have conducted raids on five UK-based websites thought to be selling unlicensed or
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28 September 2006

PC Coaching to provide NPfIT mobile training

Mobile training provider PC Coaching has signed a framework agreement with Connecting for Health to be the sole provider of
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27 September 2006

Autoforwarding to be downgraded in NHSmail

Connecting for Health have announced automatic forwarding from its email service NHSmail to most e-mail addresses – including site-specific NHS
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27 September 2006

Buckinghamshire goes live with Cerner

Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has become the third NHS trust in the South of England to begin to use clinical
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27 September 2006

Patients cannot remember C+B referral options

A total of 80% of patients in Selby and York Primary Care Trust claimed they were not offered a choice
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26 September 2006

Finance software taken up by 150 trusts

Public Sector Costing Associates Limited (PSCAL) is celebrating signing up its 150th NHS customer to use its Payment by Results
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26 September 2006

CfH changes tack on GP Systems of Choice

NHS Connecting for Health has decided to go out to tender for suppliers to take part in GP Systems of
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26 September 2006

Fewer flights

Identifying "frequent flyers" - patients at high risk of emergency admission - will soon be possible thanks to a new
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26 September 2006

Sheffield concluded iPM was ‘not fit for purpose’

A confidential review of the two Local Service Provider versions of iSoft’s iPM patient administration system carried out by Sheffield
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