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CfH stuck ‘addressing yesterday’s problems’

A leading health economist and advisor on public expenditure to the Commons Health Select Committee, has called for a radical
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Granger tells NHS to be proud of progress

Multinational giant, GE Healthcare, has earned praise from the NHS IT director-general for its rapid progress in deploying picture archiving
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PCTs start transferring patient records by CD

Practices from two primary care trusts in Hertfordshire are about to start transferring patients records on CD, ahead of the
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Choice? What choice?

Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from.
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‘Unworkable’ NCRS user policy to be replaced

The user policy for the NHS Care Records Service that practices were required to sign up to when they received
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BCS announces speaker line-up for HC2006

The British Computer Society has announced details of its speaker line-up for this year’s HC2006 health informatics conference at Harrogate,
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ chief calls for flexibility in NPfIT

The case for introducing more flexibility into the National Programme for IT was set out this week by the chief
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Marching on

E-Health Insider caught up with Accenture's health chief Ken Lacey at HIMSS in San Diego and discussed the LSP's progress
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Manchester hospitals link up with GPs

Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically
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Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire

Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK,
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