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17 June 2008

LMCs call for more recognition of QoF

GP representatives at the BMA’s local medical committees conference have called on the government to place more recognition on the
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16 June 2008

GPs vote to halt Care Record Service development

GP representatives overwhelmingly backed a motion to call a halt to development of the NHS Care Records Service at the
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16 June 2008

Telecare features in government’s Carers Strategy

Telecare will play a major role in ensuring that the 5.2m carers in England and Wales get to have a
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12 June 2008

CfH overlooks the present at Smart Healthcare

NHS Connecting for Health’s presence at this week’s Smart Healthcare expo left many attendees disappointed. Chief operating officer, Gordon Hextall,
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11 June 2008

FOI appeal on summary records legal status

A GP campaigning against the consent model for the Summary Care Record has taken his battle to the Information Commissioner’s
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10 June 2008

iSoft completes Welsh lab system upgrade

iSoft has completed an upgrade of laboratory information systems at nine NHS trusts in Wales, as part of a £1m
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5 June 2008

iSoft installs order comms in Malta

Doctors and other clinical staff at Malta’s new Mater Dei Hospital can now order laboratory tests and x-rays online and
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4 June 2008

Care charities say telecare is ‘crucial to future’

The chief executives of two UK care charities have stressed the importance of telecare services and called for the current
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4 June 2008

NHS Choices to publish death rates

The Department of Health (DH) is to publish death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS hospitals in England,
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28 May 2008

Scotland provides long-term funding for IT support staff

Scotland has announced long-term funding for IM&T facilitators to work with GPs, pharmacists and dentists. The Scottish government has agreed
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