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22 May 2003

Hammersmith & Fulham Integrate Care Electronically

Nationally, health and social services suffer from a lack of integrated IT systems. However, a few local authorities have started
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19 May 2003

E-Booking Project Reaches Short-List

The procurement process for an NHS electronic bookings system reached a key milestone last week when bidders for the £40-50
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15 May 2003

Electronic Social Care Record To Be Phased

The December 2004 target for implementing full electronic social care records (ESCR) is not achievable and the roll-out is now
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14 May 2003

Poor IT Placing Patients at Risk Junior Doctors Warn

Improved communications systems that reflect the radically changed working practices in hospitals are vital to guarantee patient safety, a new
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12 May 2003

Torex Buys Obs & Gynae Systems Specialist

Torex continued its march along the acquisition trail with the purchase of Protos Limited, the UK’s dominant provider of obstetric
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8 May 2003

Basque GPs Suspended over Centralised Data Protest

Two GPs from the Basque Country in northern Spain have been suspended without pay, apparently for refusing to use a
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1 May 2003

Healthcare IT and Devolution

The health services in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were detached from the English mother ship as part of devolution.
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30 April 2003

The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say 2

Our first batch of readers’ comments on the National Programme for IT in the NHS brought some interesting replies. The
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24 April 2003

New Forum to Support Interoperability Standards

A new Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF) has been set up to actively support the design of interoperability standards covering
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24 April 2003

“Rocky Road” to e-Procurement Predicted

European healthcare institutions show a growing willingness to embrace electronic procurement of supplies but there will be a rocky road
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