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9 May 2006

Contract success for Ascribe

 Health IT software company Ascribe has announced it has been awarded several new contracts in its pharmacy and primary and
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25 April 2006

Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact

NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact,
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25 April 2006

Bedford claims savings using rostering software

Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust has predicted it could save up to £500,000 after replacing its paper-based staff rostering system for
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12 April 2006

Newcastle goes out to tender for EPR

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to break ranks with the NHS Connecting for Health
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24 March 2006

NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets

Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure
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16 March 2006

COPD in Carlisle

Wendy McLellan of Tunstall explains how a telecare project for COPD in Carlisle is helping keep reduce costs through proactive
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2 March 2006

Northumbria goes outside NPfIT for PAS

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a patient administration system as a result of delays in
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1 March 2006

Work underway to fix records problem in iPM

A problem has been identified in iSoft’s iPM patient administration software, which, under certain circumstances, can lead to patients’ electronic
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28 February 2006

Euroking delivers maternity across Pennine hospitals

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has extended use of its EuroKing Miracle maternity software to support all four of
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16 February 2006

Missing link

Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH
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