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14 March 2005

MPs call for block on ETP ‘nomination’ plans

A cross-party group of MPs has backed calls for prescribers to be prevented from nominating pharmacies when electronic transmission of
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8 March 2005

No single opt-out on medical records database

Patients will be unable to make a single request for their records not to be held on the NHS Care
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8 March 2005

Conservatives call for NHS IT review

Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, has announced that a future Conservative government would commission an urgent review
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24 February 2005

BMA queries commissioning and e-booking link

The BMA has criticised technical guidance from the Department of Health (DH) which it says explicitly links the uptake of
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23 February 2005

Privacy key for US electronic health records

US health information technology interests have expressed great concern about guarding the privacy of patient data in building a National
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15 February 2005

Cheap as chips

The Home Computing Initiative provides savings for both employees buying PCs and their employers. Fiona Barr looks at how it
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8 February 2005

GPs say they are not being listened to

Lack of consultation and the threat to GPs existing computer systems are the biggest failings of the National Programme for
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8 February 2005

Pessimism rife among doctors about NPfIT’s benefits

The latest Medix-UK survey, co-sponsored by E-Health Insider, shows that three years into the NHS National Programme for IT confidence
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1 February 2005

GPs urge rethink on Choose and Book

Primary care trusts (PCTs) will fail to persuade GPs to use Choose and Book unless the system is overhauled, according
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27 January 2005

Lifting the burden

E-Health Insider talks to Bob Allen, interim chair of the Information Centre for Health and Social Care, about how the
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