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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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4 July 2008

New information tools promised for commissioning

The Department of Health is to develop new technology systems over the next year, to help commissioners achieve the goals
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3 July 2008

Access to NHS care records may be widened

The Department of Health is to review extending access to the NHS Care Records Service to non-NHS staff, and bodies
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1 July 2008

NHS Choices gets central role in future health

The DH's flagship website has been given a central role in Lord Darzi’s plans for reforming the health service in
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30 June 2008

Scottish GPs to get choice of systems

The Scottish government is to set up a national framework contract for GP systems and launch a procurement for an
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25 June 2008

DrThom makes the pill available online

Women can now purchase the contraceptive pill using the online medical service, DrThom without having to go to a doctor.
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25 June 2008

Common assessment for adults pilot announced

The Department of Health will next month launch a call for interest in a pilot scheme for local authority-led consortia
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24 June 2008

60 Second Interview: Murray Bain

In his latest 60 second interview with the people who make NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez talks to Murray Bain,
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20 June 2008

Call for new urgent care phone number

The Ambulance Service Network (ASN) has called for a new national telephone number for urgent non-life threatening calls, which would
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18 June 2008

CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’

The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon
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