28 May 2013

Gwyn Thomas to retire from civil service

Gwyn Thomas has announced his retirement as chief information officer for Wales and informatics director for health and social services.
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17 May 2013

£260m fund to boost e-prescribing

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a £260 million fund for hospitals to increase their use of e-prescribing and electronic
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16 May 2013

Big EPR Survey reveals components of EPR

EHI readers believe that the government should maintain a clear focus on electronic patient records as it pursues its vision
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25 April 2013

NHS 111 service OrQestrates PDS

The North East Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust has bought Quicksilva’s orQestra to give staff working on its 111 service real-time
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1 April 2013

NHS reorganisation finally takes effect

The biggest changes to the NHS in two decades come into effect today, and are likely to have a major
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1 April 2013

Shaken NHS faces uncertain future

The latest round of NHS reforms, which took effect at midnight, have been greeted with unease and concern about what
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22 March 2013

Hunt’s Ofsted plan marked down

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt should think carefully before re-introducing ‘Ofsted-style’ ratings into the NHS, the Nuffield Trust has concluded.
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16 March 2013

Govt plans law to stop “fiddled” figures

The government is thinking of holding trusts criminally liable for manipulating figures on waiting times and death rates as part
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15 March 2013

Nuffield Trust warns against ‘big stick’

The government should avoid the temptation to over-regulate the health service or to take a ‘big stick’ approach to getting
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13 March 2013

NHSmail likely to run another year

The Cabinet Office has been asked to agree an extension to the current NHSmail contract to allow more time for
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