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  Speak and be recognised

  The adoption of digital dictation technology in the NHS may have increased dramatically, but few trusts have added speech recognition, finds Cath Everett

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• South Manchester awards dictation deal

  SRC has won a contract to provide a digital dictation system to hundreds of staff at an acute trust in Manchester
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  Digital dictation: cost-saver or efficiency-gainer?

  Many trusts have replaced tapes with digital systems to save money, but can such systems also help healthcare professionals, asks Steve Gold

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  Procurement hubs sign digital dictation framework

  More than 200 trusts have access to a digital dictation and speech recognition framework deal established by Yorkshire and Humber's procurement hub

• Supply Chain cuts computer consumables deal

  Contract awards in March included a large deal on the NHS's computer consumables, as well as GP support deals for the Isle of Wight and west Hertfordshire

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  Salford Royal wireless pilot draws blood

  A hospital cut unnecessary tests and increased the productivity of its blood testing staff by issuing them with mobile clinical assistants

• London Ambulance buys £12m despatch system

  Our monthly look at health IT contracts includes a major deal by London Ambulance Service and significant tenders from Manchester PCT, NHS Scotland and the NHS in Yorkshire and Humber

• Whadya say?

  Voice activation systems are slowly emerging in the NHS, but how well do American systems understand the way we speak? Shirley Kumar finds out