Hospital boss apologises for NHS IT problems

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Staff have been caused "heartache" and hospital has lost £10m due to botched rollout of summary care records

The Royal Free suffered extra paperwork The head of one of the first hospitals to trial the new NHS summary care records system has apologised for the "heartache" the system has caused staff and ...

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