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9 December 2008

Informatics Planning Guidance for primary care

Local health communities must fix a two-year timeline for the full roll-out of the NHS Summary Care Record and move
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9 December 2008

Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi

NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11,
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9 December 2008

Keogh promotes use of the NHS Number

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has written to all NHS chief executives and medical directors to promote wider use of the
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8 December 2008

Journalists warned of possible ECS breach

Seven BBC journalists have been told that information held on their Emergency Care Summary in Scotland may have been inappropriately
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8 December 2008

DH publishes EPS release two statutory directions

The Department of Health has published statutory directions for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service, which it hopes will
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5 December 2008

TPP reaches 10m patients and plans more

Primary care system supplier TPP has announced that more than ten million patients in England and Wales now have records
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3 December 2008

IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech

The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new
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3 December 2008

Choice figures stick again

The percentage of people who recall being offered a choice of hospital remains at just one under in two patients,
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3 December 2008

Digital dictation becomes software as a service

Digital dictation specialist WinScribe has launched software as a service option – with the first UK NHS installation now up
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2 December 2008

Just champion

Sue Rushbrook won the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year award for her work on a voice and data network
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