Dept of Health

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28 April 2009

Money found for NHS innovation

Health minister Lord Darzi has unveiled a package of measures to encourage and spread innovation in the NHS. Speaking at
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21 April 2009

AHPs embrace Choose and Book

Yvonne Pettigrew, CfH’s national clinical lead for allied health professionals Use of Choose and Book for referrals to allied health
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17 April 2009

NHS Choices to publish mortality rates

NHS Choices is to start publishing hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios on its website. The government’s flagship health site already publishes generalised
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15 April 2009

Government ‘remains confident’ in NPfIT

The Department of Health has said that it “remains confident in the potential of both Cerner’s Millennium and iSoft’s Lorenzo
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8 April 2009

Two thirds of GPs sign up for IGSoC

Around two-thirds of GP practices had signed up to NHS Connecting for Health’s information governance standards by the deadline of the
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7 April 2009

Summary care record is indelible

Patients who do not opt-out of the Summary Care Record prior to one being created for them will not be
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7 April 2009

Information prescriptions expanded

The Department of Health is publicising information prescriptions and has said that an information accreditation scheme should be launched later
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6 April 2009

Hospitals failing to pass on crime data

Almost four out of five NHS hospitals are failing to collect and share data with police and local authorities that
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2 April 2009

BT takes over Cerner sites in the south

BT, the local service provider for London, is to take over responsibility for supporting hospitals in the south of England
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29 March 2009

Choose and Book usage rises to 54 per cent

Choose and Book is now being used for 54% of referrals for first outpatient appointments according to Connecting for Health.
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