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East Lancs NHS trust tells Granger of costs of delays

 The director of finance at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has written to the head of the NHS Connecting for
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iSoft user group pushing for review of NPfIT

A primary care IT user group has backed calls for an independent review of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT),
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Three PCTs decline London’s ‘interim’ community system

Three primary care trusts in London have declined to take the ‘interim’ RiO community system being offered by BT due
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Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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Doctors back calls for review of NHS digitisation

An overwhelming majority of GPs and hospital doctors have backed the calls of senior academics for an independent assessment of
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Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the
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Heart of England procures independently on PACS

Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in Birmingham has gone outside the nationally negotiated NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contract
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Trusts can keep McKesson PAS systems to 2010

US healthcare IT giant McKesson has signed a deal with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering
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NPfIT could ‘transform’ drug reaction reporting

Reporting of adverse drug reactions in England could be transformed by systematic collection through the National Programme for IT, according
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Restructuring consultation for iSoft staff

Healthcare software provider, iSoft, has confirmed that it is consulting its UK staff about restructuring the company and offering options
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