Dept of Health

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1 May 2008

ASCC clinical shortlist due

An announcement is due next week on what clinical systems suppliers have made it through to the shortlist of the
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29 April 2008

Choose and Book bill reaches £100m

The government’s e-booking service Choose and Book has cost almost £100m so far, the Department of Health has revealed. In
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22 April 2008

Prof Sir Bruce Keogh interim DH IT director general

Sir Professor Keogh, the Department of Health’s medical director, is to become the department’s interim director general of informatics. He
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21 April 2008

Swindells calls for stronger use of information

Departing CIO at the Department of Health, Matthew Swindells, has stressed the importance of the NHS using information to make
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21 April 2008

Swindells to urge NHS IT pros to play part

The departing Department of Health CIO Matthew Swindells is expected to use his keynote speech at Healthcare Computing today to call on
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18 April 2008

NHS CfH joins open source health collaboration

Open Health Tools has announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies
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17 April 2008

Wanted: someone to lead on NHS IT

It might be one of the biggest civil IT projects on the planet, but the Department of Health appears to
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15 April 2008

Six thousand practices switch to Systems of Choice

A total of 94% of eligible practices had switched to a GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) contract by the deadline
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10 April 2008

Swindells quits DH ahead of review publication

The Department of Health’s interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department to take up a position
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9 April 2008

Upgrades to core software slowed NHS Direct

An upgrade to the NHS Direct triage software led to problems resulting in increases in call lengths of up to
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