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23 July 2008

Fujitsu exit costs Cerner £89m in lost bookings

Cerner has said the termination of Fujitsu’s contract as local service provider to the Southern Programme for IT cost it
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21 July 2008

Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals

University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a
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17 July 2008

NHS Supply Chain awards wristband contracts

NHS Supply Chain has announced that eight suppliers have been chosen to provide patient identification wristbands to hospitals in England
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16 July 2008

South Central chooses McKesson for HR support

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust has selected McKesson Shared Services to support its HR and payroll functions. The deal
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15 July 2008

BT on track to get southern Cerner trusts

British Telecom is on track to take over responsibility of the eight southern NHS trusts running Cerner Millennium from Fujitsu,
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11 July 2008

Heart surgery survival data published

The NHS has published data for trusts across the country on the survival rates of four different conditions. The data
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10 July 2008

Major weaknesses found in maternity systems

The Healthcare Commission has urged trusts to invest in maternity information systems in a report that identifies major weaknesses in
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27 June 2008

CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts

The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen
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26 June 2008

GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’

Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to 'scan and save'.
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23 June 2008

Central NHS cancer research database launched

A new £4m NHS National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN), which will bring together around 22m NHS cancer records to create
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