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10 August 2010

My verdict on EMIS Web

Our GP columnist Dr Neil Paul takes a look at EMIS’s new system and reports back on his first impressions
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27 July 2010

NHS Direct to extend home working

NHS Direct has announced that it will treble the number of staff covered by its home working pilot by March
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22 July 2010

Fund looks to tech to assess access

A think tank has suggested that two technology-based initiatives could be included in a raft of measures to assess the quality
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14 July 2010

‘Large numbers’ of staff to lose jobs

The Department of Health's informatics directorate is one of the few areas of the NHS that is safe from change
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11 June 2010

King’s Fund hears more C&B grumbles

Patients value having a choice of hospital but GPs and providers have complaints about the way Choose and Book works
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28 May 2010

GP plans nursing home access to records

A GP is to explore giving nursing home staff electronic access to patient records in a move he claims could
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26 May 2010

EMIS Access ‘could save millions’

Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS claims the NHS could save almost £300m a year if all UK adults used online
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21 May 2010

NHS IT pros urged to ‘keep the faith’

The head of Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Centre has urged NHS professionals engaged in health IT implementations to ‘keep the faith’,
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21 May 2010

Thurrock Health Centre to use SCR

A walk-in centre and GP practice in Essex is to become the first NHS organisation in NHS East of England
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14 May 2010

Burns and Burstow join health team

Two health ministers have been appointed to join health secretary Andrew Lansley at the Department of Health. The appointment of
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