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12 July 2005

London project raises questions for Choose and Book

Patients offered a choice of hospital are more interested in hospital reputation than length of waiting time, according to a
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7 July 2005

Call to publish Gateway reviews of IT projects

There is a ‘strong case’ for Gateway reviews of public sector IT-enabled projects to be published, the high powered House
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5 July 2005

QOF publication due despite GP concerns

Publication of individual practice results for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is likely to go ahead in England, Wales
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29 June 2005

Calls for clarity in spirited BMA confidentiality debate

Doctors queued up to speak on the confidentiality issues raised by centralised electronic records in a lively open debate at the
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28 June 2005

E-health and the EU

The UK's presidency of the EU promises to be a significant one for e-health, Lyn Whitfield reports.
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28 June 2005

Choose and Book a ‘fiasco’, claims BMA chair

The chairman of the British Medical Association has criticised the government’s choice agenda and dubbed Choose and Book a “fiasco”
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24 June 2005

Knowledge base for non-NHS audience launched

  The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has launched a public version of its Clinical and Health
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23 June 2005

National A+E system begins rollout in Scotland

iSOFT has announced the first implementation of a Scotland-wide A&E informatics system in NHS Grampian. The Emergency Department Information System
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23 June 2005

Beating the bug

Yvonne Peel of CHKS makes the case for better collection of information about hospital acquired infections such as MRSA.
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20 June 2005

New twist in medical records opt-out saga

The government ‘does not envisage any circumstances’ where a patient’s decision to have some or all of their health record
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