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2 April 2009

Winchester deploys new e-prescribing system

Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust deployed a hospital wide e-prescribing system in just four days. The trust decided that
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30 March 2009

College highlights poor PACS image sharing

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor,
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27 March 2009

Work stops again on ContactPoint

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been suspended after local authority staff discovered loopholes in the system
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24 March 2009

Personal view: Dr Bhupinder Mangat

Doctors can’t dismiss the power of the internet to enhance patient feedback, says Dr Bhupinder Mangat, a GP in Hounslow.
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17 March 2009

CfH terminates Fujitsu helpdesk contract

NHS Connecting for Health has terminated the service desk contract it had with Fujitsu because of performance problems. The First
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16 March 2009

Report shows flaws in safety reporting

Trusts are failing to report patient safety incidents and to review their policies in response to known problems, a report
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13 March 2009

NHSBT secures portable media

NHS Blood and Transplant is rolling out a project to protect data on laptops, PCs, USB sticks and other portable
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12 March 2009

NHS boss puts programme tender on table

NHS chief executive David Nicholson told MPs on Wednesday that the Department of Health is going to tender for alternatives
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12 March 2009

Planning for pandemic flu

Clinical Solutions is helping to lay the foundations for coping with an outbreak of pandemic flu. Sarah Bruce reports.
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10 March 2009

Trust incident reports published

The National Patient Safety Agency has started to publish patient safety incident reports from every NHS trust and local health
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