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4 June 2007

Solution offered for network performance issues

Networking specialist, Cisco Systems, says it may have a solution to some of the network performance issues experienced by GP
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25 May 2007

Paper records a ‘direct factor’ in patient’s death

An independent inquiry into the death of a patient seen by eight different doctors over a bank holiday weekend has
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25 May 2007

ScriptSwitch acquired by Isis for almost £10m

Prescribing advice specialists ScriptSwitch has been acquired by Isis Equity Partners in a deal worth almost £10m. The Coventry based
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24 May 2007

£12m awarded to three home telecare sites

Teams in Kent, Newham and Cornwall have been awarded £12m to look at how best home telecare can be implemented.
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22 May 2007

Careful and cautious progress on Electronic Prescriptions

Tim Donohoe, the head of the NHS Electronic Prescriptions Service programme, tells Fiona Barr why progress will remain 'careful and
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18 May 2007

NAO says information vital to cutting prescribing costs

A National Audit Office study has found that the NHS could save £200m a year by GPs prescribing drugs fewer
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18 May 2007

Suffolk trusts deploy VoIP over N3 network

Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Suffolk Primary Care Trust have deployed a new voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system
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15 May 2007

Network boss says N3 is ‘amazing’

Stuart Hill, chief executive officer of N3 and Len Chard, Connecting for Health's programme director for N3, are adamant that
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11 May 2007

Ten new CBT pilots will include online therapy

Health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, has announced that the government is investing £2m on a further ten pathfinder projects into Cognitive
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8 May 2007

Duplicate records created after Manchester iPM upgrade

A problem in a software upgrade provided to trusts using the iSoft iPM patient administration systems in the Greater Manchester
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