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The BMA has told its members it will 'critically engage' with the consultation on the white paper which it has described as good in parts.

Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership has selected Dotted Eyes' Health Portal to enable information sharing with GPs and between NHS and local authority organisations.

GPs must inform their patients before carrying out a blanket opt-out of all their patients from the Summary Care Record, the Information Commissioner's Office has said.

The shortlist for the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT has been announced. Thirty four entries have been shorlisted for the nine categories, from a record 213 entries.

North Staffs Urgent Care has become the fourth out-of-hours centre in England to give its clinicians access to the Summary Care Record.

The NHS Alliance is advising GP commissioners and primary care trusts to get consortia up and running as soon as possible.

A former chair of the BMA's GP IT committee is advising GPs to automatically opt-out all patients from the Summary Care Record.

NHS Direct has announced that it will treble the number of staff covered by its home working pilot by March 2011, following the early success of the scheme.

The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health's arms length body review with a promise that it will be put on a firmer statutory footing and given new responsibilities.

The controversial children's database ContactPoint is to be shut down on 6 August, the government has announced.

Shadow GP commissioning consortia should begin to form in this financial year and start to take some responsibilities from primary care trusts.

A think tank has suggested that two technology-based initiatives could be included in a raft of measures to assess the quality of access to general practice.

NHS Coventry and NHS Warwickshire have gone live with McKesson's child health management system, CarePlus Child Health.

CSE Healthcare Systems has partnered with health IT consultants, Apira, to develop a business intelligence platform within RiO.

The Department of Health has set out its plans to scrap centrally, set performance managed targets - and to hold the NHS to account using 'national outcome goals'.

GP consortia are likely to look to the independent sector to meet their IT and information needs for commissioning, according to the NHS Alliance.

The government has axed £15m of funding promised by the previous Labour government to help local authorities implement integrated children's systems.

Technology will be an increasingly important element in delivering end-of-life care at home, according to an analysis which found the UK has one of the best systems for palliative care in the world.

Healthcare IT supplier EMIS has announced that it is trading is in line with expectations, with a £300,000 rise in turnover for the first six months of the year to £29.02m.

The Department of Health will not renew a half billion pound software licensing deal with Microsoft, which has run for 12 years.