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15 May 2007

Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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14 May 2007

EMIS seeks 100 pilot practices for patient record access

A patient record access group is looking for 100 EMIS practices to take part in a pioneering project allowing patients
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14 May 2007

Debate over legality of Care Record Guarantee

British data protection laws used to create the Care Record Guarantee could fall foul of new European Commission data protection
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9 May 2007

UKCHIP signs 1000th member

The UK Council for Health Informatics Professions has signed up its 1000th member – Michelle Walrond, an IT manager for
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8 May 2007

GPs say N3 slow speeds limiting use of systems

GPs are reporting more problems with N3 connections and system speeds which they say are affecting their ability to run
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3 May 2007

TPP develops text messaging service

Primary care and community healthcare IT providers, TPP, have introduced text messaging to work alongside their flagship SystmOne solution. The solution has
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1 May 2007

Scottish GPs insist on explicit consent on shared records

  GP practices must remain the data controller for GP records even if databases are held within a hosted environment,
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1 May 2007

Information Governance will be ongoing challenge

Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the  information governance challenge for shared
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1 May 2007

Nine companies in GP systems beauty parade

Nine companies including one newcomer to the market presented their GP IT systems to GP and primary care trust representatives
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1 May 2007

Nottingham expands diabetic retinopathy service

A £4.5m community-based digital eye screening programme for diabetics in Nottingham is being rolled out to a further six locations,
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