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Personal care budgets proposed for elderly and disabled

Proposals to give elderly and disabled people personal budgets to commission their own care will go out to local consultation
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Horizontal applications in health and social care

Denise Harrison, director and co-founder of Liquidlogic, on the growth of horizontal integration.
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BMA to attempt to control internet drug sales

The British Medical Association (BMA) is to work with the UK government and the World Health Organisation to control internet
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Liquidlogic system compliant with DCSF specification

Liquidlogic’s Protocol Integrated Children’s System (ICS) has become the first ICS solution to achieve full compliance with the Department for
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Commission calls for better use of information

High-quality information about patients’ care should be used better to measure how well providers are performing, the Healthcare Commission has
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DH to award £80m contract for NHS Choices

The Department of Health has gone out to tender to find a new supplier to run the NHS Choices patient
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NHS leading public sector on shared services

A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared
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Ophthalmologists use ePortfolio for career development

Trainee doctor members of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists are using a new web-based system, ePortfolio from Premier IT, to
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Health on Net chosen for French websites

The French National Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé – HAS), has chosen the online health information accreditation body
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CfH to spend a further £6.4bn by 2011

Connecting for Health will spend a further £6.4bn over the next four years to 2011, according to figures given by
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