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8 November 2005

Digital geographic information deal puts NHS on the map

More than 600 NHS organisations in England are to gain direct access to the Ordnance Survey’s most detailed digital geographic
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1 November 2005

Choose and Book ‘will be a year late’

The flagship Choose and Book electronic booking application will be at least a year late by the time it is
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28 October 2005

40 business cases for PACS signed off

Forty business cases for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in the NHS in England have been signed off and
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20 October 2005

James Paget gets outsider PACS

James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust in Norfolk has become the first hospital trust in England to go live with an
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20 October 2005

From dependence to responsibility

In the first of a two part article, Iain Anderson from Capgemini looks at the drivers for change in the
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12 October 2005

Investment in clinical coding now critical

NHS trusts must urgently invest in the financial and performance management and supporting information systems, the Audit Commission says in
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29 September 2005

CfH approaches 2,000th deployment

Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of
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27 September 2005

Every PCT to miss Choose and Book target

The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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15 September 2005

Pathology tech revamp to be ‘re-energised’ by DH

Pathology test results being sent electronically to care providers overnight, and testing facilities being made available in non-traditional settings, are
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