Scotland

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24 November 2006

Scotland’s NHS in the dark on IM&T spend

The NHS in Scotland does not know exactly how much it spends on IM&T overall, according to a major report
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21 November 2006

NHS Scotland signs £300m deal with Atos Origin Alliance

A consortia lead by Atos Origin has been awarded a £300m contract to be NHS Scotland’s Information Management and Technology
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17 November 2006

Handwritten paperwork “causes delays”

GPs spend too long filling in paperwork by hand, decreasing the amount of time they spend with patients, a survey
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14 November 2006

GPASS abandoned by Tayside and Grampian

NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian have confirmed that they will be abandoning the General Practice Administration System for Scotland (GPASS)
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14 November 2006

Wales starts summary record project

Out of hours clinicians in Gwent are to have access to an emergency summary care record in a project which
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2 November 2006

Scottish ECS proving a success

Launched last summer the Scottish Emergency Care Summary is already proving a success making out-of-hours communications more efficient and effective.
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2 November 2006

Scotland mandates online patient data dictionary

A new clinical standards dictionary has been set up by NHS Scotland’s National Clinical Dataset Development Programme in an effort
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31 October 2006

NHS Scotland aims for electronic records from 2010

Delivering for Health, the board responsible for IT in NHS Scotland, says it will act on the key recommendations of
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30 October 2006

NHS Scotland signs Microsoft licensing deal

NHS Scotland has signed a national deal with Microsoft to supply office software and desktop operating systems at a discounted
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17 October 2006

CfH wields axe on funding Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence will no longer be freely available to clinicians in England after NHS Connecting for Health failed to agree
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