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Accenture signs with Agfa for PACS

Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the North East and East of England,
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A new era of choice?

Sean Riddell, deputy managing director of EMIS, examines the current climate five months after the DH announced it would allow
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PCTs await C+B incentive payment decisions

A straw poll taken by EHI Primary Care has revealed an enthusiastic take-up among PCTs of the Department of Health’s
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18,000 GPs registered for care records

The number of NHS staff registered to eventually use the national NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS), when it becomes
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Hampshire SHA payroll staff transfer to Xansa

Xansa’s NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), a joint venture with the DH designed to centralise financial systems across the NHS, has signed up
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Nurses save most time with IT training

Based on a telephone poll Connecting for Health has claimed that staff who master basic IT skills under the NHS
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Choose and Book workload lifted for Somerset GPs

GPs in Somerset and Dorset have been told they will not need to carry out their own referrals using Choose
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Patients rate good local services above choice

A report into patient choice has argued that while Choose and Book is seen by the public as a positive service
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New IT local delivery plans due by September

Implementation of new NHS IT systems is to become a non-negotiable part of the local delivery plans (LDPs) of every
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Bringing CfH into the mainstream

Richard Jeavons, director of IT service implementation at the DH, tells E-Health Insider about his role in pushing IT reform
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