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20 April 2007

Milton Keynes MP asks when Millennium will be fixed

Reports of missing patient records resulting from the new Cerner Millennium system at Milton Keynes NHS Trust have led local
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19 April 2007

St Mary’s deploys new colposcopy CIS

St Mary’s NHS Trust London, has deployed a new Colposcopy Clinical Information System from AxSys Technology into its gynaecology department.
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17 April 2007

PAC report reveals postcode lottery on GP systems

Connecting for Health has treated contracts for GP systems differently in its five clusters with local service providers contracted to
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17 April 2007

PAC says NPfIT suppliers are ‘struggling to deliver’

A damning new report by the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) questions the basic business case behind
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13 April 2007

Fujitsu signs pathology contracts with three trusts

Three NHS trusts in the South of England have signed contracts totalling £5.5m with Fujitsu Services to provide them with
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12 April 2007

Report warns of embarrassment over NHSu’s £72m

A report on the now-defunct online NHS university (NHSu) says that the £72m spent on the project would have exposed the
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12 April 2007

DH to pilot care from home in July

The Department of Health has announced that it will be beginning piloting primary care commissioning of telecare in July, with
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12 April 2007

Atos Origin’s £257m DH diagnostics contract suspended

A £257m contract for diagnostic services in North-west and South-west England awarded to Atos Origin last December has been suspended
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11 April 2007

Hewitt launches ‘Choose and Book’ librarians

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has launched ten ‘choice’ library pilots. Librarians in the pilots will be trained to help people
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11 April 2007

DH extend outsourcing contract with CSC

The Department of Health have agreed a £20m deal with Computer Sciences Corporation to extend their information technology outsourcing contract
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