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Three-year wait for PCTs' prison stretch
Published: 27/03/2003, Volume II3, No. 5848 Page 10 11
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Scots give full backinng to mental health shake-up
Published: 27/03/2003, Volume II3, No. 5848 Page 10 11
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director action
Lyn Whitfield assesses the solid start made by NHS IT director general Richard Granger
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your flexible friend
The current trend is for NHS IT procurements to be signed for no longer than three years, suggesting that policy makers envisage the national programme being rolled out in this timeframe. But while the policy makers (quite rightly) spend time defining the requirements of the national architecture, the challenges facing ...
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Records prototype under construction
A prototype health records infrastructure is being built at South Staffordshire Healthcare trust to support the development of a national HRI.
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NHS business
Agfa has announced that it has installed its 100th digital imaging system at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, as part of a major deal to install 12 systems across the Royal Lincolnshire trust.
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news summary
The Department of Health has finally announced the amount of money that will be available for the NHS national IT programme over the next three years.
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trouble on the cards
Immigration is an increasingly significant factor in the identity card debate, but does it come at the expense of more important considerations, asks Lyn Whitfield
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What the information commissioner said
Information commissioner Richard Thomas issued a strong response to the government's proposals last month.
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record of retainment
Staff retention for health informatics is poor.Now the NHS faces losing a key section of its workforce to private companies that could loan them back at higher rates.Steve Mathieson finds out what the NHS can do to secure employees
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local connection
In the face of high-profile hospital closure disputes, the government has firmly positioned itself behind health services at a local level.But can current technology deliver this vision of integrated care? Sally Whittle reports
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go with the flow
By introducing a tracking system, a hospital trust found it could ease the movement of patients from acute to non-acute beds. Jane Dudman reports
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site impaired
Government departments have rushed to get online in time for the 2005 deadline, but the services offered are often unreliable, with broken links and little information. Steve Mathieson examines the state's websites
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Cambridge: site unseen
Cambridge is a major IT centre, with many people making their living from the web and other modern technologies.