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Survey shows waning support for NPfIT

Waning enthusiasm from doctors for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is recorded in a Medix survey of medical opinion
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GP practice asks if it should drop 0844 number

A GP practice in Worcester is asking patients whether or not it should keep its 0844 telephone number. Ombersley Medical
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Scotland issues revised ETP schedule

Scotland has issued a revised timetable for the rollout of its electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) project which it now
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NHS 24 signs new deal with Clinical Solutions

NHS 24 has extended its contract with Clinical Solutions for its telephony-based out-of-hours decision support system for the next three
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Cheers and tears at BT e-Health Insider Awards

Joe Fernandez speaks to the lucky six winners from the red carpet.
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Winners announced in BT e-Health Insider Awards

Awards for some of the UK?s most outstanding health IT projects and people were announced at the gala BT e-Health
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Concerns raised over corporate use of NHSmail

Concerns about the future direction of the NHS’s private email service have ben raised after it was used for the
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Five million patients referred through C+B

Connecting for Health (CfH) says Choose and Book has now been used to refer over five million patients into specialist
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SUS blasted as ‘not fit for purpose’

The Secondary Uses Service (SUS) is not fit for purpose and is failing to provide GP practices and PCTs with
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GP claims PDS increases information theft

The practice of extracting confidential patient information from GP practice staff has become much more frequent since the introduction of
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