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NPfIT implementation priority: to put NHS IT users firmly in the driving seat. 13 December 2005
More opposition to ID cards. 13 December 2005
Laming recants on children’s database.
13 December 2005
Resistance grows to reporting underage sex to the police. 13 December 2005
Privacy rights of minors challenged again.
13 December 2005
Identity theft: a top public concern. 13 December 2005
Even more criticism for ID-card proposals.
13 December 2005
Danish national EPR-connectivity scheme in trouble. 13 December 2005
Danes rushed to see their medical records online. 13 December 2005
Choose and Book targets will be missed.
13 December 2005

Bids invited to map databases on children. 22 November 2005
Ireland suspends £100m healthcare-IT project.
15 November 2005
Data can halt avian-flu outbreaks. 15 November 2005
GP data quality is key to Spine launch.
15 November 2005
Fuzzy system for intensive-care support.
15 November 2005
Can you trust an electronic healthcare-insurance card? 15 November 2005

State-of-the-art scanners for Cobalt diagnostic centre. 24 October 2005
DoH survey maps the challenge for NPfIT communications campaign. 11 October 2005
Software agents for public-health research.
11 October 2005
Views sought on guidance for disclosing information about children. 11 October 2005
Portable brain scanner to use Bluetooth. 11 October 2005
Patent dispute over remote intensive-care monitoring. 11 October 2005
Immersive reality used in stroke physiotherapy.
11 October 2005
A glimpse of informatics-staff conditions in the NHS. 10 October 2005
Boots ready for ETP. 10 October 2005
Don’t rush to use biometrics, Council of Europe warns. 10 October 2005
Delay in electrical equipment-disposal directive. 10 October 2005

Nurses feel excluded from national communications programmes. 9 September 2005
Trust managers uneasy over NPfIT progress.
9 September 2005
Social services told to prepare for telecare boom.
9 September 2005
NAO warns NHS bodies about National Programme’s local-implementation costs. 9 September 2005
Head of French national programme fired.
9 September 2005
First French region declares itself ready for national EHR. 9 September 2005
Consultation on integrating health and social care. 9 September 2005
Buggy PAS summons corpse for check-up.
9 September 2005
Antifraud software works. 9 September 2005
European healthcare-insurance card has lift off.
9 September
EU funding for breakthrough man–machine interface. 9 September 2005

Communications toolkits for disseminating information about the NPfIT and the work of CfH. 24 August 2005
Tata blames NHS National Programme for IT for revenue slowdown. 22 August 2005
Consultation on a revised NHS code of practice for records management. 18 August 2005
Collaboration in renal transplant outcomes study.
6 July 2005
Tough times ahead for NPfIT’s prime contractors.
6 July 2005
Chair of crisis-torn NHS24 service resigns. 6 July 2005
Decision-making “confused” in continuing care, say MPs. 6 July 2005
Doctors continue warnings about effects of ID-card scheme. 6 July 2005
DoH promises controlled use of patients’ medical information held in national database. 6 July 2005
Fujitsu swaps IDX for Cerner in NPfIT Southern Cluster. 6 July 2005
Practice manager wins battle to get her healthcare record removed from England’s national database. 6 July 2005
Scotland urged to build EHR in three years. 6 July 2005
Mobiles could help leg-ulcer patients. 4 July 2005
Cardiff uses AI to fight stroke. 4 July 2005

Tracking systems “vital” for decontamination super-centres. 21 June 2005
Smart holograms signal monitoring breakthrough.
21 June 2005
Researchers demonstrate airship broadband.
21 June 2005
Payment by results could delay uptake of new technologies, say MPs. 21 June 2005
Huge hidden cost of Care Records Service. 14 June 2005
Oxford company launches US patient-monitoring trial. 14 June 2005
New radio architecture for medical implants.
14 June 2005
Doctors unhappy about Bolton’s single GP system. 14 June 2005
Computer-implemented inventions: new patents legislation in the making. 14 June 2005

Enabling patients to correct errors in their medical records from a remote location. 18 May 2005
Elearning initiative to train staff in MRSA. 18 May 2005
Elearning tool to help doctors master technology. 18 May
Green paper on adult socialcare reforms. 18 May 2005
Trust chiefs to be retrained. 18 May 2005
Suppliers asked for ‘Spineless’ products. 18 May 2005
Privacy and cost objections rule out neonatal gene tests. 18 May 2005
Obtaining patients’ consent for audit “not easy”.
18 May 2005
NHS is coping with FoI Act. 18 May 2005
More healthcare-related use for ID-card database. 18 May 2005
Legacy suppliers left out in cold by NPfIT. 18 May 2005
Consultation on PACS a “charade”. 18 May 2005
Children Act databases criticised. 18 May 2005
Are hospital wireless networks insecure?. 18 May 2005

NPfIT: London Cluster’s Implementation Director resigns. 27 April 2005
NHS Direct, anxious to build on its experience in providing remote care, seeks pilot sites in England. 27 April 2005
MPs pan child-protection indexes. 27 April 2005
National Programme down but not out. 22 April 2005
Scotland ploughs its own care-records furrow. 22 April 2005
Telemedicine rejected by NHS. 22 April 2005
IBM healthcare chief calls for government action on standards. 22 April 2005
Irish electronic healthcare programme to drive economic growth. 22 April 2005
Italy launches electronic healthcare card. 22 April 2005
NAO applauds Cancer Strategy. 22 April 2005
Secrets of The Severn. 22 April 2005
Training needs clash with patients' consent rights. 22 April 2005
Ulster launches its ICT strategy for care-services' development. 22 April 2005
Insurers extend genetic testing deal. 22 April 2005
£60m for new ways to keep older people at home. 21 April 2005
Better diagnostic support needed. 21 April 2005
BMA to meet NPfIT in privacy summit. 21 April 2005
Choose and Book: BMA seeks clarification on appointment slots. 21 April 2005
Clinicians should influence purchasing, says healthcare industry. 21 April 2005
Connecting the UK, connecting government ICT-enabled reform. 21 April 2005
Doctors' disquiet mounts over privacy in England's care-records scheme. 21 April 2005
DoH concedes on choice of GP system. 21 April 2005
Germanic DNA debate. 21 April 2005
Australian doctors can access medical records to stop "prescription shopping". 21 April 2005

Wirral goes for an NPfIT-compliant level-6 EPR system. 18 March 2005
Weather data predicts hospital admissions. 18 March 2005
The wrong kind of bonk. 18 March 2005
Websites may help some depressives. 18 March 2005
US finds medication data-entry errors on the rise. 18 March 2005
US incident shows risks of email. 18 March 2005
Scottish NHS to review 24-hour helpline. 18 March 2005
Choose and Book “targets” were really “estimates”. 16 March 2005
GPs may escape online bookings. 16 March 2005
Egovernment efforts so far have failed. 16 March 2005
Employee sick records exposed. 16 March 2005
Encrypt your mobile data, firm warns. 16 March 2005
First steps towards Care Records Service. 16 March 2005
Australia embarks on unified electronic patient record to protect life. 16 March 2005
Children’s databases: consent processes cause concern. 16 March 2005
Data protection in medical research: unresolved issues. 16 March 2005
Probe into nurses’ use of IT. 16 March 2005
Old enough to become pregnant, but not to keep the termination secret? 16 March 2005
No gene screens for babies. 16 March 2005
Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ETP) service starts roll-out. 10 March 2005
Health tree puts patients in the know about hereditary illnesses. 2 March 2005
Workshop promotes remote-interaction solution for disabled and elderly patients. 2 March 2005
British boardrooms turn a blind-eye to information security risks. 2 March 2005

Worries over FoI supervision. 15 Feb 2005
World-leading institute of life science to be built in Swansea. 15 Feb 2005
Software ‘medicine map’ to guide NHS doctors. 15 Feb 2005
Removing ward name-boards “going too far”, say doctors. 15 Feb 2005
Police aim for DNA on 25% of UK population. 15 Feb 2005
Northern Ireland’s waitinglist data compromised. 15 Feb 2005
No easy answer to patient ID mistakes, says report. 15 Feb 2005
NHS launches satellite-TV channel. 15 Feb 2005
Birmingham Heartlands RFID-tags patients to avoid litigation. 15 Feb 2005
New standards to encourage SMEs to bid for government contracts. 14 Feb 2005
National Programme appoints new clinical ‘sales team’. 14 Feb 2005
Loughborough wins facial-reconstructive technology grant. 14 Feb 2005
Local authorities forge on with electronic-services drive. 14 Feb 2005
ID Cards won’t contain medical records — yet. 14 Feb 2005
Health-information websites disadvantage American seniors. 14 Feb 2005
Focus computer prescribing on high-risk errors, expert says. 14 Feb 2005
European Commission plans to regulate genetic tests. 14 Feb 2005
EU-wide consultation on electronic accessibility. 11 Feb 2005
Europe spending billions on EPRs. 11 Feb 2005
Doctors prove to be ‘the spanner in child-protection works’. 11 Feb 2005
Doctors show disenchantment with NPfIT. 11 Feb 2005
National Programme for IT's Choose and Book rollout redesigned and rescheduled. 11 Feb 2005
Boxer sues over disclosure of medical records. 11 Feb 2005
Audit Scotland concerned about financial-management information. 11 Feb 2005
Elearning in socialcare: suggestions welcomed. 13 Jan 2005

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