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US finds winning cancer apps

Developers in the US have created mobile applications which make use of public data to help detect, prevent, diagnose and
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Cancer risk tools make progress

More than 150 GP practices are taking part in a paper-based trial of a risk assessment tool for cancer diagnosis
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Welsh software used for NI screening

Northern Ireland is using software developed in Wales to extend its bowel cancer screening programme.
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Southend signs CIS Oncology deal

CIS Oncology has been awarded a contract to provide Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with an oncology pharmacy dispensing
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GP cancer tool ‘a work in progress’

Dr Willie Hamilton, a GP and expert in cancer diagnosis from Bristol University, talks to Fiona Barr about the computer
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Nottingham extends cancer solution

Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust has announced it will deploy a customised reporting solution across 15 of its specialist tumour
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NI awards €78m contract to HP

Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has awarded a contract worth up to €78.5m to Hewlett-Packard
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Somerset cancer register goes national

The Somerset Health Informatics Service has developed an electronic register to help cancer patients across the country receive treatment more
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Lansley outlines Tory NHS plans

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged to cut the cost of NHS bureaucracy by a third at the Conservative
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Barts 18 week backlog in thousands

A new care record system has contributed to thousands of patients from Barts and the London NHS Trust potentially breaching
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