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29 September 2005

CfH approaches 2,000th deployment

Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of
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29 September 2005

Accreditation for e-prescription service software

Pharmacy software specialist, Systems Solutions, has received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health to transmit prescriptions electronically through N3, the
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28 September 2005

Code red

Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of
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28 September 2005

Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target

Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent
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27 September 2005

GP system choice being blocked and mocked

A Hertfordshire IT manager reported that he was laughed at when he told his local service provider (LSP) that he
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27 September 2005

Every PCT to miss Choose and Book target

The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be
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23 September 2005

NHS chief executive calls for investment in IT

NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has called on trusts to make greater use of shared back office functions such as
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23 September 2005

PCTs not funding essential practice upgrades

GP representatives are collecting information about IT funding problems faced by general practices after anecdotal reports that GPs are being
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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20 September 2005

Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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