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Health secretary’s website wins access award

Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who
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Concerns raised over corporate use of NHSmail

Concerns about the future direction of the NHS’s private email service have ben raised after it was used for the
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Five million patients referred through C+B

Connecting for Health (CfH) says Choose and Book has now been used to refer over five million patients into specialist
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SUS blasted as ‘not fit for purpose’

The Secondary Uses Service (SUS) is not fit for purpose and is failing to provide GP practices and PCTs with
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IT to be included in hospital ‘deep cleans’

IT and telephone equipment have been included in the Department of Health’s list of items be subjected to a rigorous
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Patient data extraction software dropped by DH

The Department of Health has dropped plans to use Apollo software to extract patient data from GP practice systems this
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EHI’s industry news roundup 02.11.07

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 2 November, featuring supplier news, implementations, product launches, awards and
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Lesson from history

A radio programme looked back at the progress of the National Programme for IT. Linda Davidson tuned in.
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Mobile SAP helped Swindon’s flood victims

During the summer’s floods housebound patients in Swindon were visited and assessed by community practitioners, who used mobile devices running
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IT vital to deliver care closer to home, DH says

Fast and efficient communication between primary and secondary care systems is needed to enable care to be delivered closer to
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