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10 October 2005

OT e-catalogue speeds up equipment orders

A local occupational therapy and community equipment service (OTCES) has won an award for making the detailed information in its
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4 October 2005

QFLU will keep tabs on flu cases

Hundreds of GPs across Britain have signed up to contribute daily reports on flu cases to a new database that
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3 October 2005

Two lines to combat GP cynicism – Jeavons

Connecting for Health’s director of service implementation, Richard Jeavons, has attributed GP cynicism about IT modernisation to the newspapes and
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30 September 2005

PCT safety culture needed to prevent errors

A lack of understanding about IT systems and a failure to establish a safety culture are to blame for the
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28 September 2005

Code red

Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of
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27 September 2005

Every PCT to miss Choose and Book target

The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be
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23 September 2005

PCTs not funding essential practice upgrades

GP representatives are collecting information about IT funding problems faced by general practices after anecdotal reports that GPs are being
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22 September 2005

New analysis tool helps pinpoint deprivation

Huddersfield’s primary care trusts and global information solutions specialists, Experian, this week claimed a health informatics ‘first’ with the publication
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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13 September 2005

‘Unworkable’ smartcard rules to be re-written

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has been forced to scrap the rules that practices must sign up to when they
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