Problems with a patient-booking system at two Bristol hospitals should be resolved within weeks, the trust says.

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The new systems include an online booking system, e-prescriptions and fast computer network links between NHS organisations as well as the electronic records system.

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Or would you like a secure electronic message sent by your GP who you trust over a secure network to a booking system which would allow your booking to occur there and then and for you to change it subsequently?

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For example, in large hotels, voltage dips and power interruptions of less than a second can result in booking and reservation system failures, which are extremely expensive.

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Another idea is a formal system of booking operations on fixed dates.

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He said that as a result, there would be "a number of changes", including beginning a project to improve end-of-life care and implementing a new system of appointment booking to deal with a backlog of operations.

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Booking.com, or other online travel agencies don't count as central reservation system referrals in the in the math I use to calculate this.

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Travelocity, for one, allows a buyer outside the U.S. or Canada to have any flight booking sent to a travel agent anywhere -- so long as he is a Sabre reservations system user -- to have the purchased ticket issued.

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Many online travel agencies have come to resemble physical ones, signing up with a GDS which provides a reservations system and other computing power while handing them a commission (ultimately paid by the airlines) on every booking.

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