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Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England

The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP
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Police recover stolen NHS laptop

A laptop stolen from Nottinghamshire Teaching Primary Care Trust containing the names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children
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Minister to look at C+B issue with ‘sensitive’ patients

Patients who withhold their names and addresses to protect their personal safety are being ‘disenfranchised’ from the NHS when their
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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Winchester says Millennium becoming ‘more robust’

The delays in implementation of the Cerner Millenium patient administration system have helped to make the system ‘fit for purpose
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Privacy GP calls records opt out pledge a ‘decoy’

A GP who has campaigned for patients to secure an opt-out from the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is claiming
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Exercising Choice

When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary
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UN warning on rogue internet pharmacies

Unregulated internet pharmacies are posing a high risk to patients, according to the United Nation’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
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Unified communications in healthcare

Single, converged networks supporting IP telephony, videoconferencing, video-on-demand and contact centres offer benefits for healthcare that should not be ignored,
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda

Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information
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