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Maternity delivery delays

Maternity systems form a core part of Local Service Providers' contracts under the NHS IT programme, but delivery has been
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OOH performance measurement poor, says report

Many primary care trusts are unable to measure their performance on out-of-hours care, partly because providers do not have the
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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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NPfIT’s Evolution maternity dropped by Royal Shrewsbury

The NHS trust that was meant to be the pilot site for the National Programme for IT version of iSoft’s
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Agreement reached on CHIA replacement

Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution
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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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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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More teamwork needed to make PBC a reality

A report by an independent steering group of experts from the NHS, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence has called for
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Five trusts sign up for e-rostering software

Five NHS trusts and a private hospital group are set to adopt Manpower Software’s MAPS Healthroster system which is designed to ease
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Summary care records planned for end of 2008

Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end
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