Dept of Health

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28 February 2006

London child health system led to vaccination problems

Problems with the introduction of a new child health information system, provided under NHS Connecting for Health to ten PCTs
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23 February 2006

Marching on

E-Health Insider caught up with Accenture's health chief Ken Lacey at HIMSS in San Diego and discussed the LSP's progress
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23 February 2006

ComMedica closes diagnostic imaging business

ComMedica Limited, the UK-based developer of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) has announced that it is closing its diagnostic
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26 January 2006

Audit Office report on CfH delayed again

Public spending watchdog the National Audit Office has once again delayed the publication of its report into the £6.2 billion
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23 January 2006

CfH due for restructuring in DH shuffle

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has signalled that it will undergo restructuring later this year as part of a wider
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23 January 2006

GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’

The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up
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19 January 2006

NHS CfH says spine now fixed

NHS Connecting for Health, the DH agency responsible for delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT, has issued a
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19 January 2006

Ofcom calls for review of hospital phone charges

A review group is to be set up to look at hospital bedside telephone and entertainment services and see whether
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3 January 2006

DH launches cosmetic surgery info site

The DH have launched a new section of their site designed to offer advice and information to patients considering cosmetic
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6 December 2005

NHS signs enterprise deal with Novell

NHS Connecting for Health has negotiated a £21.8m deal with infrastructure and software services supplier Novell, which it claims will
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