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Four new areas for IT policy named by DH

Four significant new areas for NHS information and IT policy are identified in the Department of Health’s new plans for
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iSoft’s financial troubles mount

Troubled UK health IT software firm iSoft was plunged into further financial crisis on Friday after it announced it had
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North Staffs announces ‘big bang’ implementation

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has started its trust-wide ‘big bang’ implementation of a new iSoft patient administration system,
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iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby

iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation
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Lack of NPfIT involvement concerns nurses

Two leading nurses have expressed deep concern at the lack of involvement of the nursing community in the design of
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Lengthy delivery for NPfIT maternity systems

The delivery of new maternity systems as part of the NHS IT programme has stalled, E-Health Insider has learned. Not
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Press gang

Have long-running allegations of media bias against the National Programme for IT any basis in fact? IT journalist Michael Cross
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Healthy optimism?

E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT's progress, and how far it covers
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GPs and their families urged to boycott NHS ‘spine’

GP representatives are advising GPs and their families to consider withdrawing themselves from the NHS spine “as an example to
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Granger: bricks of the digital NHS coming together

 The pace of delivery of new IT systems to the hospital sector has been "disappointing", says NHS IT director general
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