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12 March 2007

DH acknowledge junior doctor selection ‘shortcomings’

An extremely rapid DH initial review into the heavily criticised online junior doctor recruitment system has within 24-hours admitted that
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12 March 2007

Tories back more collaborative approach on IT

Shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has said that the government needs to start taking advantage of the ‘collaborative forums that are
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8 March 2007

DH orders review into junior doctor recruitment system

The Department of Health has announced it has ordered a review into the Medical Training and Application Service (MTAS) following
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7 March 2007

ExtraMed secure £500,000 investment

Scottish based healthcare IT software developers ExtraMed have secured £500,000 of investment to further develop products for the NHS market.
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2 March 2007

Junior doctors say training website is in ‘pandemonium’

The new web-based Medical Training Application System (MTAS) used to recruit junior doctors has ‘descended into pandemonium’, according to the
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1 March 2007

“It’s not about politics – it’s about patients”

In the concluding part of E-Health Insider's exclusive interview with the chairman of the BMA, James Johnson, he tells us
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27 February 2007

NHS Wales streamlines test sample processing

GPs and nurses across Wales are to switch to using printed labels and barcodes when they send test samples to
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22 February 2007

Patients key to NPfIT fate

In the first of a two-part interview, BMA chairman, James Johnson, tells Joe Fernandez why patients will decide ultimately the
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22 February 2007

New post-Shipman information guidelines issued

The government has released new guidelines on the use of information to ensure NHS organisations have systems and processes in
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21 February 2007

NHS Direct Wales launch new website

NHS Direct Wales have launched a new website, after research indicated that two-thirds of the country use the internet for
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