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10 June 2008

King’s Fund calls for ‘virtual polyclinics’

A leading health think-tank has recommended that the Department of Health should pilot ‘virtual polyclinics’ in a major report on
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9 June 2008

Wiltshire PCT deploys new e-referral system

Clinicians at Wiltshire PCT are now able to electronically refer patients to local primary care services using a new system
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3 June 2008

Primary care following Fujitsu

Following the exit of Fujitsu from the NHS IT programme in the South of England, Fiona Barr explores what the
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3 June 2008

Fujitsu’s exit may hasten systems choice

Long term system choice for GPs could have moved a step nearer with the departure of local service provider (LSP)
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3 June 2008

DH ‘highly unlikely’ to ban 084 numbers

The Department of Heath is being urged to make a decision on the use of 084 telephone numbers in GP
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3 June 2008

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan to virtualise server

Ashton, Leigh & Wigan PCT has appointed CSA Waverley to deliver a major project to virtualise server and storage environments
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28 May 2008

Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’

Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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23 May 2008

Records of 38,000 Isle of Wight patients lost

An encrypted back-up tape containing the medical records of over 38,000 patients from the Isle of Wight PCT has gone
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20 May 2008

Six Dorset practices added to SCR pilots

Dorset Primary Care Trust has announced staff at six more local GP practices will start to use the NHS Summary
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15 May 2008

Millennium fails again across Southern England

Many NHS staff in the south were left unable to use the Cerner Millennium care record system last Wednesday morning,
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