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26 June 2008

GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’

Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to 'scan and save'.
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25 June 2008

Fujitsu staff talks: 700 possible redundancies

Seven hundred staff working on the NHS Southern Programme for IT face possible redundancy, following the termination of Fujitsu’s £1.1bn
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25 June 2008

Common assessment for adults pilot announced

The Department of Health will next month launch a call for interest in a pilot scheme for local authority-led consortia
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18 June 2008

CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’

The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon
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17 June 2008

Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments

NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become
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17 June 2008

Less than one in twenty patients use NHS Choices

A total of 4% of patients used the NHS Choices website as a source of information to choose their hospital
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12 June 2008

Negotiations over £143m Fujitsu advance continue

Questions about advance payments made to Fujitsu by NHS Connecting for Health are still to be resolved, as discussions on
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5 June 2008

Map of Medicine partners with DH cancer networks

The Map of Medicine is partnering with all cancer networks across England to localise the cancer care pathways already provided
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4 June 2008

NHS Choices to publish death rates

The Department of Health (DH) is to publish death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS hospitals in England,
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3 June 2008

Primary care following Fujitsu

Following the exit of Fujitsu from the NHS IT programme in the South of England, Fiona Barr explores what the
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