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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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Cayton says legacy systems could have offered more

England’s NHS National Programme for Information Technology will lead to better patient care but greater emphasis on building on existing
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£10m NHS service comparison site to be announced

An online comparison site which will enable NHS patients to compare different health services and shop around for a GP
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PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South

All NHS hospital trusts across London and the South of England have now received systems to enable them to capture
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Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England

The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP
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Additional suppliers catalogue tender released

Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender
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NPfIT is a ‘high quality enabler’ says NHS chief

NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has described the National Programme for Information Technology as “not fundamentally an IT programme, but
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Isle of Man chooses System C for major contract

System C has won a £7.5m contract to provide an integrated island-wide healthcare IT service in the Isle of Man.
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Cerner deal signed to aid 18 week wait target

Healthcare information technology specialist, Cerner, will be helping trusts in North-west and South-west England to meet the government target for
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NHS 24 faces legal action over patient deaths

NHS 24, the Scottish health helpline service, is being sued for £750,000 damages by the partner of a man who
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