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23 June 2009

GP bodies clash on SCR

The Royal College of General Practitioners has publicly backed the Summary Care Record following criticism of its consent model by
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23 June 2009

CfH publishes OGC Gateway Reviews

Health service IT agency NHS Connecting for Health has published the Office of Government Commerce gateway reviews of the National
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17 June 2009

Switchover to Digital Britain

The government has confirmed that it wants universal access to 2Mbps broadband by 2012, arguing that this is vital for
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16 June 2009

GE offers $100m loans to boost EMR use

GE Healthcare has launched a programme of €72m ($100m) in interest-free loans to boost electronic medical record (EMR) adoption in
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15 June 2009

Money, money, money

The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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15 June 2009

GPs told to harness IT innovation

GP practices are being encouraged to harness innovative IT services to improve the quality of care they deliver to patients.
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12 June 2009

Berners-Lee to advise on public data use

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man widely credited with inventing the world wide web, is to advise the UK government on
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10 June 2009

Confed: future ‘unprecedentedly difficult’

The NHS Confederation has warned that the health service is facing a £15 billion shortfall from 2010-11 and changed ways
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5 June 2009

Andy Burnham replaces Alan Johnson

Andy Burnham Andy Burnham has been named as the new health secretary. Burnham will replace Alan Johnson who moved to
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5 June 2009

CfH one of ‘big three’ users of consultants

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has identified NHS Connecting for Health as one of the big three users of management
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