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10 January 2008

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to introduce free screening for stroke, diabetes, heart and kidney disease. Joe Fernandez looks

9 January 2008

Pricings for primary care IT systems offered under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative and the draft PCT-practice agreement

8 January 2008

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to offer telehealth services to 100,000 people with long term conditions in a speech

7 January 2008

The NHS Alliance claims government targets for discharge letters will create a two tier system on a critical patient safety

7 January 2008

Pfizer is working with a PCT to deliver telephone-based care management expects to sign up more PCTs within the next

4 January 2008

GP incentive payments for Choose and Book will be redirected to pay for extended access to GP practices from April

4 January 2008

Over one million people contacted NHS Direct in England over the 11 day Christmas and New Year holidays, breaking all

3 January 2008

Informing Healthcare, the NHS Wales IT agency, has awarded a three year contract to CSW Group Ltd to commence implementation

3 January 2008

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –

3 January 2008

EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service

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