England

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2 August 2006

250,000 registered for NHS smartcards

Over a quarter of a million health service staff have now registered for an NHS smartcard, according to Connecting for Health
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31 July 2006

NHS officially told of London Cerner switch

NHS trusts across the capital today received official confirmation that BT is to replace GE Healthcare – previously IDX Systems –
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31 July 2006

CSC failure leaves 80 trusts without IT systems

A technical failure at an NHS Connecting for Health data centre on Sunday has left 80 NHS trusts across the North
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28 July 2006

Electronic staff record now biggest NHS payroll provider

The NHS Electronic Staff Record is now installed in over 150 sites across England after being implemented of the largest
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19 July 2006

Cayton to lead summary records taskforce

Patients’ ‘tsar’ and chair of the Care Records Development Board, Harry Cayton, will lead the taskforce set up to help
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17 July 2006

Wirral rolls out electronic ordering to GPs

GP practices across Wirral and surrounding areas in North-west England are due to rollout a new electronic ordering system for
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12 July 2006

Birmingham Children’s loses sight of appointments

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust has become the latest trust to experience problems after Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) installed new
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11 July 2006

Doctors test out RFID system for handovers

Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers.
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26 June 2006

Lengthy delivery for NPfIT maternity systems

The delivery of new maternity systems as part of the NHS IT programme has stalled, E-Health Insider has learned. Not
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26 June 2006

BT said to be considering iSoft bid

BT was reported at the weekend to be drawing up plans to bid for iSoft, the troubled health software company
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