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15 July 2008

HealthSpace set for big expansion

HealthSpace, the government’s secure online site for patients, is to be expanded to include shared records and GP appointment booking,
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15 July 2008

Data Sharing Review has messages for the NHS

Patients who consent to a course of treatment should be presumed to have given “implied consent” to having their data
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14 July 2008

NHS Choices £80m contract award imminent

The Department of Health is this week expected to announce the winner of the three-year, £80m contract to run NHS
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14 July 2008

NHS Choices publishes long term conditions guides

A series of online NHS health guides for people with long term conditions has been launched on the NHS Choices
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14 July 2008

Intel gets approval for telecare device

Intel has received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new personal telehealth system.
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14 July 2008

Doctors repeat call for inquiry into CFH

Doctors’ representatives have called for an independent inquiry into Connecting for Health and demanded that trusts be allowed to seek
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11 July 2008

Heart surgery survival data published

The NHS has published data for trusts across the country on the survival rates of four different conditions. The data
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11 July 2008

BMA rejects call to ‘abandon’ Choose and Book

The BMA has rejected demands to abandon Choose and Book if it cannot be made fit for purpose within a
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11 July 2008

Alcatel-Lucent launches LifeStat

French telecomms giant Alcatel-Lucent has announced the launch outside Canada of LifeStat Remote Monitoring and Health Management, a telemedicine service
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10 July 2008

NHS Informatics Review says trusts need ‘interim’ systems

NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems
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