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Patients value having a choice of hospital but GPs and providers have complaints about the way Choose and Book works to deliver it, according to a report from the King's Fund.

Parts of NHS Direct, the Choose and Book service and the current 'consent to view' model of the Summary Care Record should all be reviewed to save money in the financial crisis, the BMA's GP leader, Dr Laurence Buckman, said today.

Primary care IT supplier INPS has announced that it has signed an agreement to supply its Vision system to 83 GP practices in NHS Lanarkshire.

A professional social networking site for NHS staff in Scotland has been unveiled by Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon.

The Department of Health has launched an online World Cup fitness tool to get football fanatics off the sofa and away from their pints and pizza.

NHS North Yorkshire and York has announced that it will implement 2,000 telehealth systems from Tunstall following a successful pilot across the county.

The discharge summary targetThe NHS Alliance says hospital discharge information has got worse over the past three years, based on the results of its latest nationwide survey of GPs.

EMIS Web has begun first of type testing at GP practices in England, healthcare IT supplier EMIS has announced.

Microsoft's Enterprise-wide Agreement with the NHS has expired and is yet to be resigned with NHS Connecting for Health.

The summary care record roll out The government has said that uploading of Summary Care Records will continue to take place, in its first public statement on the future of the SCR since gaining office.

Document management software supplier PCTI is offering its electronic document transfer software free of charge to GP practices.

The Department of Health has confirmed that BT's new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts that will be reviewed by the new government to ensure value for money.

An action plan produced as a result of an investigation into the use of TPP's out-of-hours system in West Yorkshire is almost complete, the lead commissioner has revealed.

The proposed GP data extraction service is awaiting a decision on its future funding as the coalition government carries out a review of arms length bodies.

The chief executive of the NHS, Sir David Nicolson, has been named as one of the highest earning civil servants in the country.

A GP is to explore giving nursing home staff electronic access to patient records in a move he claims could save the NHS millions of pounds.

NHS Hammersmith and Fulham has gone live with an interactive website designed to improve the information that it provides.

Researchers have developed a web calculator to identify patients at high-risk of adverse events from statins after a study found some may have unintended effects.

Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS claims the NHS could save almost £300m a year if all UK adults used online appointment booking and repeat prescription requesting.

Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS claims the NHS could save almost £300m a year if all UK adults used online appointment booking and repeat prescription requesting.