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8 February 2012

Three more GP clinical systems suppliers sign up for GPES

The NHS Information Centre (the NHS IC) is pleased to announce that it has signed contracts with a further three GP clinical systems suppliers to provide support for GPES - its centrally managed general practice data extraction service.

31 January 2012

New study estimates autism prevalence among adults with learning disability

Adults are much more likely to have autism if they have a learning disability suggests a new report, which also estimates about one adult in every 100 in the general population of England has some degree of autism.

26 January 2012

More than half of A&E attendances involve patients staying more than two hours in the department – a higher percentage than the previous year.

Figures for 2010/11 also shows there were 15.8 million unplanned attendances recorded by the NHS IC's Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) in the year, up more than 700,000 on 2009/10 when there were 15.1 million.

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