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5 June 2009

NHS Direct and NHS walk-in centres could provide more telephone-based outreach services to patients with long term conditions, according to

4 June 2009

Dr David Low, consultant paediatrician and national clinical lead for paediatrics and child health at NHS Connecting for Health, discusses

4 June 2009

Computer-generated ‘fit notes’ could save GPs more than £100m over the next ten years, according to the Department for Work

4 June 2009

German health IT firm CompuGroup has been chosen to implement a hospital information system (HIS) at the Bintulu Hospital in

3 June 2009

One of the leaders of the British Medical Association has described the NHS IT programme as “the worst case of

1 June 2009

The UK’s medicines regulatory body has launched a consultation on the European Commission’s plans to change the rules on the

28 May 2009

Mobile phones are to be banned from French primary schools, under new government measures to reduce the health risk to

28 May 2009

Grassroots GPs are to return to the debate for an opt-in approach to the transfer of patient identifiable data and

27 May 2009

The Information Commissioner has written to the permanent secretary of the Department of Health demanding immediate improvements to the lax

20 May 2009

The government’s chief information officer has praised IT systems in the health sector but has highlighted the need to “drive

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