5 August 2010

More evidence needed on telehealth costs

More evidence on the cost-effectiveness of telehealth and telecare innovations is needed to encourage their wider adoption, according to a
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4 August 2010

GPs to pay for NHS Appraisal Toolkit

The Department of Health has announced that GPs will have to pay to access its NHS Appraisal Toolkit website from
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4 August 2010

Scotland launches NHS Inform

Scotland has launched a one-stop health advice service to make it easier for the public to access health information and
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3 August 2010

Birmingham SCR scare proves false

The vast majority of the Summary Care Records identified as out-of-date are actually up-to-date, an investigation has discovered.
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2 August 2010

BMA says white paper a ‘curate’s egg’

The BMA has told its members it will ‘critically engage’ with the consultation on the white paper which it has
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2 August 2010

Birmingham Portal drives info sharing

Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership has selected Dotted Eyes’ Health Portal to enable information sharing with GPs and between NHS
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30 July 2010

ICO issues guidance on SCR opt-outs

GPs must inform their patients before carrying out a blanket opt-out of all their patients from the Summary Care Record,
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29 July 2010

Fourth OOH centre gets access to SCR

North Staffs Urgent Care has become the fourth out-of-hours centre in England to give its clinicians access to the Summary
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28 July 2010

Dixon urges consortia to work quickly

The NHS Alliance is advising GP commissioners and primary care trusts to get consortia up and running as soon as
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27 July 2010

Cundy advises mass SCR opt-out

A former chair of the BMA’s GP IT committee is advising GPs to automatically opt-out all patients from the Summary
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