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Fake sicknotes for sale online

Fake sicknotes, complete with doctors’ stamps, are being sold online. The DoctorsNoteStore.com website is selling the fake doctors’ sicknotes for
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Wirral PCT faces local data privacy backlash

Wirral Primary Care Trust has delayed plans to introduce a telephone support service provided by a US contractor, after a
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Police to get access to national child database

Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal
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Intellect calls for more IT in diabetes care

The trade association Intellect has expressed disappointment that the Department of Health’s latest policy statement on diabetes fails to give
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iPLATO lets patients update records automatically

Patients of the Bush Doctors and Richford Gate Medical Practice in Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust will soon receive
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Trusts told to release slots to Choose and Book

NHS trusts have been criticised for failing to provide enough outpatient appointments slots on Choose and Book – and told
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Information prescriptions to be linked to electronic records

The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to
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Possible management buyout at Ascribe

Ascribe Plc, the AIM-listed healthcare IT services company, has today confirmed it is in preliminary talks with its executive directors
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Guidance ‘wrong’ on amending clinical notes

When the Londonwide Local Medical Committees issued advice to its members on correcting clinical notes it seemed a straightforward matter. Don’t
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Half of Scottish prescriptions sent electronically

Over half of all NHS prescriptions issued in Scotland are now sent electronically, latest figures show. Since the start of
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