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3 November 2004

Engage or risk failure, BMA IT chief tells NPfIT

Dr John Powell, chair of the British Medical Association’s IT committee, has issued a fresh call to the National Programme
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1 November 2004

Open source software could save NHS money

The Office of Government Commerce has made recommendations that public procurement of software should consider open source solutions, citing, amongst
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29 October 2004

Surgeon tags patients with WiFi to improve safety

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital is claiming to have the world’s first pilot of wireless active tagging system for patients, with links
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28 October 2004

New NHS email system switched on

The new NHS email system, Contact, has belatedly gone live after the abortive launch two weeks ago – but early
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27 October 2004

Keeping an eye on ID

Identifying patients to access their records can be a big problem for A&E staff and paramedics. So why not use
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21 October 2004

A few billion between friends?

After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check
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17 October 2004

Survey finds IT consultation inadequate or non-existent

A new survey of doctors’ views of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) shows 92% of medics questioned felt that
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14 October 2004

New Caldicott guardian for national programme

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has appointed the head of its digital information policy team, Phil Walker, as its
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13 October 2004

NPfIT refutes claims on unforeseen costs

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) last night issued a lengthy statement refuting claims that it will generate billions of
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12 October 2004

Contact lost as NHS e-mail relaunch misfires

Contact, the new NHS e-mail service supplied by Cable and Wireless, is down for maintenance after problems at its launch on
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