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  Lies, damned lies and statistics

  The failures of Mid Staffordshire show that mortality data is not the best way to judge a hospital, argues the Patient from Hell Dick Vinegar

• Scotland plans health protection IT system

  NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is hoping to use a commercial off the shelf system to support health protection work

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  Freeing health's data

  Politicians are trying to open access to government data, but this may expose problems with the accuracy of NHS information, reports Michael Cross

• NHS told to exploit business data analysis

  Health organisations should borrow information techniques from retailing, publishing, finance and telecoms, according to the NHS Information Centre

• NHS learns to use its intelligence

  The NHS in England is making increasing use of business intelligence software to plan its services and monitor quality, finds Gill Hitchcock

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  Scotland establishes national GP systems deal

  NHS Scotland is setting up a framework contract for the country's GP systems and has awarded a contract to control data transfers

• England plans surgical instruments barcode deal

  June also saw NHS Scotland award Sun Microsystems a £9.5m contract to provide the country with a national identity and access management contract

• BT consolidates National Programme dominance

  April saw the Department of Health paying BT a £92.8m advance for work in the south of England, while the Health and Social Care Information Centre said it will spend £13m to extract data from GP systems