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22 November 2005

Scottish practices indicate interest in systems switch

Almost 20 per cent of practices in Scotland have expressed an interest in switching to a different IT system with
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22 November 2005

User group buys majority of Ireland’s HEALTHone

GP users of one of Ireland’s leading clinical management systems have banded together to buy a majority shareholding in the supplier. Health
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21 November 2005

Key role for NCRS in dual registration

The British Medical Association (BMA) has given cautious backing to proposals to allow patients to register with two GP practices
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18 November 2005

HPA wins award for e-learning project

 The Health Protection Agency has won an award for an e-learning package that instructs doctors how to deal with major
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15 November 2005

ETP potential

EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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14 November 2005

Granger says NPfIT in danger of being derailed

The director in charge of the £6.2 billion NHS National Programme for IT has warned that the project is in
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10 November 2005

Granger answers Choose and Book critics

NHS IT chief, Richard Granger, says that low usage of the Choose and Book system is not something he can
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10 November 2005

EHI cited by Commons Public Accounts Committee

The Department of Health director responsible for the NHS National Programme for IT was taken to task last week by
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9 November 2005

Handwriting rules for controlled drug scripts written off

GPs will no longer have to handwrite prescriptions for controlled drugs as a result of amendments to the Misuse of
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8 November 2005

Choose to stay

Most general practices would be better off sticking with their existing systems, says Ewan Davis, chair of the Primary Health
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