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20 April 2007

Health and social care records ‘need framework’

Social services directors are calling for a national framework for care record standards across health and social care, after their
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12 April 2007

DH to pilot care from home in July

The Department of Health has announced that it will be beginning piloting primary care commissioning of telecare in July, with
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11 April 2007

DH extend outsourcing contract with CSC

The Department of Health have agreed a £20m deal with Computer Sciences Corporation to extend their information technology outsourcing contract
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11 April 2007

Cayton says legacy systems could have offered more

England’s NHS National Programme for Information Technology will lead to better patient care but greater emphasis on building on existing
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10 April 2007

Telecare framework sales near £7m mark

Almost £7m of sales have gone through the telecare national framework agreement since its launch last June and an update
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28 March 2007

Additional suppliers catalogue tender released

Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender
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27 March 2007

Two years on

It's two years since the Information Centre for health and social care started work on its mission of "providing knowledge
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22 March 2007

Framework sets out plan for joined up IT

The government has set out a radical plan for joining up health and social care IT systems and sharing information
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20 March 2007

E-referral system aims to cut discharge delays

An electronic e-referral system that helps cut discharge delays has been extended to cover patients moving from the Countess of
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15 March 2007

Sunderland uses e-SAP to unite health and social care data

Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust has rolled out a new electronic Single Assessment Process system from Liquidlogic in an effort
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