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The abolition of GP practice boundaries will increase the importance of shared medical records, according to the Department of Health.

Braintree Community Hospital is to go live with TPP's Community Hospital module when it opens for business this spring, TPP has announced.

Health IT system supplier EMIS has announced that it expects its shares to be trading on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market by the end of this month.

The Department of Health has restored the NHS Appraisal Toolkit website which was taken offline last month after routine checks revealed it could be vulnerable to hackers.

Text messaging specialist iPlato has launched a smartphone service to enable GP practices to create their own mobile internet sites.

NHS South Gloucestershire, NHS North Somerset and NHS Bristol will all have gone live with RiO within the next six weeks.

Conservative health spokesman Stephen O'Brien has accused the government of trying to tie the hands of an incoming Tory government over the future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.

NHS Connecting for Health has announced that 1 million records have now been transferred using its GP2GP record transfer system.

Christine Connelly, director general, informatics, at the Department of Health, will chair the judging panel for the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT.

The summary care record roll out Londonwide Local Medical Committees is advising GPs to consider proactively contacting patients about the creation of Summary Care Records.

The government has announced that it has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in response to the latest report on the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

NHS Connecting for Health has issued new guidance on the data quality standards GP practices are expected to meet before data is uploaded to create Summary Care Records.

An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an "impeccably independent and transparent source" to be set up to produce comparative statistics for the NHS.

BT's priority fault repair service for telephone lines at GP practices is to end on 31 March, according to NHS Connecting for Health.

The Department of Work and Pensions aims to roll-out electronic 'fit notes' in the autumn, following the launch of a new paper-based system in April.

The second primary care trust to deploy TPP's urgent care solution has stopped using the mobile solution because of problems with poor reception.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have gone live with a new electronic discharge system from Bluespier.

Local authorities are ill-prepared to cope with the demands of an ageing population and must look to telecare as one of a raft of measures to help them tackle those challenges, according to the Audit Commission.

The head of the NHSmail programme has said that he wants "most" NHS organisations to have migrated to NHSmail by the time its current contract expires in July 2013.

NHS Nottinghamshire County has become the first primary care trust to implement a system to manage GP appraisals and revalidation from business intelligence specialists 21C.