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6 July 2007

Nottingham says PACS has already saved £1m

The deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems can save trusts over £1m each year, an NHS IT director has
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29 June 2007

Talking web pages introduced on NHS Direct

NHS Direct has agreed a deal with Brousealoud.com, specialists in reading web pages aloud for people who find it difficult
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28 June 2007

Johnson named as new health secretary

Alan Johnson has today been appointed as England’s new health secretary by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. The former education secretary
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27 June 2007

BT’s big mission

In an exclusive interview BT Health's managing director Patrick O'Connell updates EHI's Jon Hoeksma how BT is progressing on its
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26 June 2007

Letter to the PM

In an open letter Robin Guenier, former CEO of the Government's Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency, urges the new Prime
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26 June 2007

Patientline hits trouble as losses grow

Patientline, the hospital entertainment and phone provider, has announced that it is in urgent talks with its banks to renegotiate
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19 June 2007

E-mail with patients will demand new skills

E-mail communication with patients will require astute judgement from doctors about which correspondents need to be evaluated in person and
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18 June 2007

Fulsome praise for departing CfH boss

The news that Richard Granger is to leave Connecting for Health and the helm of the NHS IT Programme later
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16 June 2007

Granger to leave in transition by end of 2007

Connecting for Health chief executive, Richard Granger is to leave the agency responsible for delivering the National Programme for IT
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12 June 2007

Granger says NPfIT programme substantially delivered

Richard Granger, the chief executive of Connecting for Health, today said that the NHS IT project has been substantially delivered with
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