England

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16 March 2007

Maternity delivery delays

Maternity systems form a core part of Local Service Providers' contracts under the NHS IT programme, but delivery has been
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15 March 2007

Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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15 March 2007

DH to lift hospital mobile phone ban

The Department of Health has announced that a ban on patients and doctors using mobile phones in hospitals in England
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1 March 2007

Funding axed for ambulance IT system

Urgent talks are underway to save a computerised capacity and activity monitoring system (CAMS) used to direct ambulances to hospitals
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28 February 2007

Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner

Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with
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19 February 2007

Call to use Spine to find drug trial patients

The BioIndustry Association has expressed an interest in tapping into the NHS’s Spine database and using patient information to identify
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19 February 2007

Accreditation win for Barts and London service desk

Barts and The London NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in England to win Connecting for Health accreditation
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16 February 2007

DH embraces wireless safety technologies

A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by
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15 February 2007

Storm over Fujitsu executive’s ‘honest’ NPfIT remarks

A senior executive from local service provider to the Southern cluster, Fujitsu, has said that the intense pressure suppliers are
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29 January 2007

CSC delivers seven new systems in North East and East

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it deployed seven new IT systems to GP practices and healthcare community settings,
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