The latest 60 second interview with the people who make NHS computing work features Nigel Beasley, the national clinical lead for hospital doctors at NHS Connecting for Health.

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Choose and Book’s national medical director, Dr Stephen Miller, outlines the latest developments to the online booking system.

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Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy will have plenty on their desks when they take over the top jobs in NHS IT in mid September. Lyn Whitfield reports.

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Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for all radiological images.

In the latest of his 60 second interviews Joe Fernandez puts the questions to Mik Horswell, director of the UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals (UK CHIP).

EHI goes behind the scenes at Benenden Hospital, as it prepares to go-live with an Oasis electronic patient record system.

Joe Fernandez talks to Matthew Swindells, former interim chief information officer for the DH, and now a managing director of health at consultancy Tribal.

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.

The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.

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The final report of the Next Stage Review of the English NHS sees technology-driven change as one of the challenges facing the NHS in the 21st century.