10 May 2005

Public sector contractor rates rise by a third

A survey of IT professionals across the UK has revealed that hourly pay for government IT contractors have risen by
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10 May 2005

GP says clinical consultation not delivering

A GP involved in advising Connecting for Health has claimed the programme is being mismanaged with professional input ignored and
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10 May 2005

Groundhog Day

Connecting for Health's new strategy to engage with professional associations seems strangely familiar, reports E-Health Insider from the Clinical Information
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9 May 2005

iSOFT wins London deal for Radiology Information Systems

BT has awarded a £3.5 million contract to clinical IT firm iSOFT to provide Radiology Information Systems (RIS) for early
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9 May 2005

Major ministerial reshuffle for health

John Hutton, the health minister whose responsibilities included NHS IT, has been promoted in the post-election reshuffle. He enters the
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9 May 2005

Post-tsunami care advice made available online

The Cochrane Collaboration is helping those caring for victims of the Boxing Day tsunami with online evidence-based clinical and policy advice
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6 May 2005

Professions invited to advise Connecting for Health

A new set of advisory groups intended to involve professional organisations in the work of Connecting for Health (CfH), formerly
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5 May 2005

MedNet’s key issues

The tenth World Congress on the Internet in Medicine (MedNet) is taking place later this year. Robert Pretlow looks at
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5 May 2005

NWWM faces £75m potential liabilities on SAS scheme

The NHS faces total potential liabilities of up to £75m in the North West and West Midlands (NWWM) cluster of
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5 May 2005

Companies link up for digital retinopathy screening

Digital Healthcare and Graphnet have announced a collaboration that will combine the two companies’ imaging and electronic record software to
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