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20 March 2008

Choice extended to all hospitals in England

Patients having non-emergency treatment in England will be able to choose from any hospital in the country as of 1 April, the
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19 March 2008

Scotland to pilot new sexual health system

A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in
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18 March 2008

Wales seeks ‘urgent approval’ for IHR rollout

The leaders of the Welsh NHS IT programme are calling for urgent approval of the business case for rollout of
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18 March 2008

GP systems create £1.6m in recurrent savings

More than 600 GP systems had been installed under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) by the end of March
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17 March 2008

Electronic ‘fit notes’ could replace sick notes

Paper-based sick notes should be replaced with electronic ‘fit notes’ according to the first ever review of the health of
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17 March 2008

Nottingham to mainstream telehealth

Nottingham City PCT has agreed to mainstream telehealth with the purchase of new monitors from specialists Tunstall, following a successful
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11 March 2008

GPSoC contracts due for completion this month

Connecting for Health (CfH) is predicting that all GP practices using eligible systems under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC)
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11 March 2008

Johnson steps up pressure on 0844 numbers

Health secretary Alan Johnson has stepped up the pressure on practices using 0844 telephone numbers as campaigners draw up a
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11 March 2008

Four pilots for shared social care records

Three local authorities and one care trust are to pilot links between their social care systems and the NHS Personal
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6 March 2008

Greater Manchester extends telemedicine pilot

The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network has extended its pilot of a telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch, to
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