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7 September 2016

Wachter calls for extension to paperless 2020 target

Dr Robert Wachter has said the “unrealistic” paperless 2020 goal should be discarded in his long-awaiting review into the digital
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17 August 2016

Ade Memoire: how long?

Adrian Byrne, the director of informatics at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, considers the timescale for the government's paperless
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14 July 2016

Jeremy Hunt retains post as health secretary

Jeremy Hunt has retained his post as health secretary in the re-shuffle triggered by Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister.
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18 May 2016

Digital Health interview: Helen Waters

Meditech’s electronic patient record system has been deployed in the UK for 25 years. Digital Health news editor Rebecca McBeth
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3 March 2016

Leadership summit: full steam ahead?

The first Digital Health Leadership Summit heard the government wants to create the ‘railroad’ over which local IT services can
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7 February 2016

Hunt announces £4.2 billion for NHS IT

The government will spend £4.2 billion on NHS technology over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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25 January 2016

Interview: George Freeman

The life sciences minister’s vision is that “every patient is a research patient”. For that to happen, he tells Digital
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9 December 2015

NIB: Newton to take over from Kelsey

Public Health England’s John Newton is to replace Tim Kelsey as chair of the National Information Board on an interim
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18 November 2015

Special report: Electronic Document Management

As it moves towards paperless working by the end of the decade, the NHS will need both electronic patient record
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4 November 2015

NHS IT leaders say ‘paperless’ possible

Two-thirds of NHS IT leaders say they are confident their organisation can meet the goal to become paper-light by the
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