Dept of Health

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7 February 2008

Granger era ends as DG leaves CfH

Richard Granger has left NHS Connecting for Health, the NHS IT agency responsible for the £12.4bn NHS IT programme, he
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7 February 2008

Privacy fear over NHS card loss

Thousands of NHS computer 'smartcards' used to give access to confidential patient records have gone missing.
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30 January 2008

Choose and Book to list private hospitals

The next version of Choose and Book software will list all available hospitals, regardless of whether they are public or
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28 January 2008

To donate or not to donate?

Prime Minister Gordon Brown says every British citizen should automatically regarded as an organ donor through a ‘presumed consent’ scheme.
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24 January 2008

Eighty trusts sign up to ‘scan and save’

The GS1 asset tracking technology in use. Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that almost eighty
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22 January 2008

Over 40 per cent of practices say PBC data poor

More than 40% of GP practices believe the information they receive for practice based commissioning (PBC) is poor or very
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17 January 2008

Ex-IC chief lodges ‘scapegoat’ claim

The former chief executive of the Information Centre (IC) has claimed that she was made a “scapegoat” for the heavily
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17 January 2008

Trusts block junior doctors checking job e-mails

Junior doctors are unable to find out if they have been offered jobs because their trusts block access to popular
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10 January 2008

National IT system needed for medical recruitment

In his final report into the Modernising Medical Careers scheme, Sir John Tooke has labelled the online Medical Training Application
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9 January 2008

Unstable radio controls halt Airwave deployments

The Airwave radio system in use The Department of Health has had to cease deployments of Airwave radio systems to
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