Dept of Health

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17 October 2006

Bucking the trend

Sunderland PCT is on course to deliver the March 2007 target of 90% of referrals through Choose and Book. EHIPC
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17 October 2006

IT staff jobs at risk in cuts to NHS Blood Service

Staff who have been developing and implementing a new blood tracking systems for the NHS Blood Service designed to improve
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11 October 2006

Plain Healthcare wins new WiC Contract

Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust (PCT) has awarded the contract for software for its new walk-in-centre to clinical decision specialists
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10 October 2006

Choose and Book set to miss 90% referral target

The Department of Health’s target for 90% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book by next March looks
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9 October 2006

Urgent care IT improvement discussed

Seamless patching of voice and data information between urgent care providers and access to electronic patient records for everyone involved
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29 September 2006

Pharmacists call for greater say in CRS taskforce

The leading high street pharmacy operators have criticised the exclusion of pharmacists from the government’s NHS Summary Care Record Taskforce
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27 September 2006

Patients cannot remember C+B referral options

A total of 80% of patients in Selby and York Primary Care Trust claimed they were not offered a choice
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25 September 2006

Some N3 links ‘too slow for Choose and Book’

A fanfare for the near completion of the new NHS network, N3, has been met with complaints that some GP
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20 September 2006

NPfIT systems failing repeatedly

More than 110 major incident failures have been reported by hospitals and GPs over the past four months relating to
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29 August 2006

Press reports question future roles of iSoft and Accenture

Weekend press reports raised further questions over the future shape of the NHS National Programme for IT and the long
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