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GP Pan User Group debates data migration

Concern about the costs of data migration under the new system choice initiative was voiced by representatives at the first
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NPfIT ‘favourability’ drops with managers

Both IM&T and general managers in the NHS appear to view the National Programme for IT less favourably than they
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Mixed feelings on NPfIT in primary care, poll shows

Only one in four GPs feel favourably about the National Programme for IT although the overwhelming majority rate NPfIT as
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Major Multilex DDF update to support CfH requirements

First Databank Europe (FDBE) has completed a major upgrade to its Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) to include integration
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Choose and Book progresses amid target row

More than 20% of referrals are now being made using Choose and Book, according to latest figures from NHS Connecting
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Public awareness low on e-health services

A picture of low public awareness of electronic health services emerges from a new survey of users with NHS Direct,
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Wirral rolls out electronic ordering to GPs

GP practices across Wirral and surrounding areas in North-west England are due to rollout a new electronic ordering system for
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Troubled child health system to be replaced

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) looks set to replace an interim child health information system deployed in London last year and
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Computer therapy to help patients back to work

  Ultrasis’s Beating the Blues, a computerised cognitive behavourial therapy software package designed to offer drug-free treatment to patients with
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PCT achieves 87% C+B referrals with flexible system

A primary care trust (PCT) has achieved the highest take up of Choose and Book in the country by allowing
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