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- NHS boss says IT programme at 'pivot point'
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS is at a "pivot position" and that the DH would not tolerate continued delays, "we can't go on and on like this." - Six hundred volunteers test NHSmail
NHS Connecting for Health is planning to start "extended user acceptance testing" of the new NHSmail platform on Monday. - Watchdog calls for safety culture
The Healthcare Commission has urged the NHS to generate better comparative information on safe care and outcomes and to set up a national database of serious untoward incidents. - Report urges tech support for public health
The NHS needs to make more use of advanced technologies if it is to successfully tackle the nation's unhealthy lifestyles, the King's Fund has argued. - Shake up in Informatics Planning
Local health communities have been instructed to move towards "information-led rather than service-led planning" and to create new structures to plan and deliver the IT needed to do it.