In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs, discusses some key issues for the profession.

In his latest 60 second interview with the people who make NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez talks to Murray Bain, director of IT at NHS Direct.

In his latest column GP Dr Neil Paul offers some suggestions to make it easier to find NHS information.

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Following the exit of Fujitsu from the NHS IT programme in the South of England, Fiona Barr explores what the implications are for primary care.

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E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.

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A busy summer lies ahead as the implications of the evaluation of the Summary Care Record are considered, Fiona Barr reports.

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EHI is calling for readers to provide their views on the development of acute e-prescribing to inform a round table debate.

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GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they have been known to date.

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In the second of his columns as a grassroots GP, Dr Neil Paul describes a local project to share diabetes records.

Free choice at referral takes effect this month. Fiona Barr looks at how IT will be used to deliver this flagship policy.