Dept of Health

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2 April 2008

Richard Jeavons to leave Connecting for Health

Richard Jeavons, Connecting for Health’s head of service implementation is to leave the agency before it implements its key detailed
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2 April 2008

Decision due on NHSmail move to Exchange

Connecting for Health’s head of the NHSmail programme, Will Moss has told E-Health Insider that the DH agency will decide
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25 March 2008

QoF cash for quitters

GPs could be paid depending on the number of their patients who stop smoking as part of possible changes to
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20 March 2008

Choose and Book release four due 12 April

Release four of Choose and Book will go live on 12 April, delivering the government’s policy of free choice at
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20 March 2008

Choice extended to all hospitals in England

Patients having non-emergency treatment in England will be able to choose from any hospital in the country as of 1 April, the
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19 March 2008

HealthSpace wins clinician vote

HealthSpace, the NHS’s own personal health record project, has been voted the most exciting part of the NHS national IT
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18 March 2008

GP systems create £1.6m in recurrent savings

More than 600 GP systems had been installed under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) by the end of March
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18 March 2008

Committee backs data protection checks

The parliamentary joint committee on human rights has backed proposals to allow the Information Commissioner to check government IT projects
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14 March 2008

NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years

The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to
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13 March 2008

ESR set to complete roll-out

The NHS’s Electronic Staff Record is due to complete its national implementation this month, with over 600 NHS organisations across
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