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DrThom launch ‘male health’ service online

Men suffering from erectile dysfunction can now seek advice and receive prescriptions from an online treatment service, staffed by clinicians
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Lord Darzi pledges IT review

A review of England’s NHS IT modernisation programme to ensure it “delivers real clinical benefits” is promised in health minister
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Data centre failure left practices without SystmOne

A fault at a BT-run data centre left GP practices using TPP’s SystmOne experiencing performance problems with their system for
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Six London trusts get RiO for mental health

Six mental health trusts in London are now using new IT systems, delivered under the NHS IT programme, to help
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Suppliers set routes on the GPSoC roadmap

TPP’s SystmOne and the wide area network version of EMIS PCS should meet Connecting for Health standards for hosted systems
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English practices earn £119,000 a year from QoF

GP practices in England earned just under £119,000 from the Quality and Outcomes Framework last year, achieving 95.5% of the
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NHS to invest in new digital alarms for staff

New safety alarm devices for lone workers will be provided to 30,000 NHS workers, as part of the Department of
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Birmingham GPs say patients barred for incomplete data

GPs in Birmingham claim that four primary care trusts are rejecting patient registrations if their demographic data is incomplete, as
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NHS Wales’ IT programme ‘getting balance right’

After an exhaustive examination of NHS Wales' progress in IT, Gwyn Thomas seemed pleased with the reports coming back to
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60 Second Interview: Colin Price

Joe Fernandez quizzes Dr Colin Price, formerly of the NHS Centre for Coding & Classification and now an independent consultant
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