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SMS
SMS looks likely to win a multi-million-pound hospital IT contract in the north of England following Siemens' withdrawal from the two-year tendering and procurement process. Royal Hull Hospital and East Yorkshire trusts had been working together in a project to replace their ageing ICL-designed IRC patient administration systems. Having originally ...
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Distant relations
A Highlands trust that has to communicate with GPs in far-flung areas is using an intranet-based system to send test results electronically. Peter Mitchell explains how it works
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Two-way traffic
When two hospitals merged acute services, the challenge was to give both sites access to fast and reliable pathology laboratory test results, explains Peter Mitchell
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Resistance fighters
Antibiotic resistance is a major problem for clinicians, but computer systems can help by automating testing and reporting procedures, writes Peter Mitchell
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Chaos theory
Information system plans for primary care groups are as much up in the air as the rest of the PCG project. The simultaneous need to get all GPs connected to NHSnet by the year end is just adding to the confusion, writes Peter Mitchell
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Asthma pilot begins
North London's Whittington teaching hospital is piloting an Internet- based monitoring system for severe asthma patients, in a pan-European experiment funded by the European Commission.
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Trust ready for millennium accounting
Severn trust is to implement the Geac SmartStream financials system, in a £100,000 contract to make its accounting department Year 2000 ready.
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'Hatchet woman' of days gone by is appointed to trust board
One of the most controversial figures from the era of the Conservative NHS reforms has staged a surprise comeback by winning a seat on a trust board.
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Lip smacking: health secretary Frank Dobson plants a kiss on the cheek of Gloria Hanley, a graduate of the West Yorkshire leadership, career and personal development programme for black and ethnic minority managers.
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news in brief
Health union MSF - and its community health workers' arm, the CPHVA - have met Welsh Assembly health secretary Jane Hutt to lobby her on the concerns of NHS workers in Wales. Top of the union agenda was pay, which MSF claims has 'fallen below the level of Sainsbury's check-out ...
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Babes in arms:
Dr Charlotte Wright, a senior lecturer at Newcastle University and community paediatrician at Gateshead Health trust, with a 24-hour-old recruit to her millennium baby study. The project will follow 1,000 babies - about half of those born in Gateshead each year - for their first 12 months, looking at how ...