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13 August 2008

The Adventurous 4.0

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Choose and Book’s national medical director, Dr Stephen Miller, outlines the
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7 August 2008

New leaders for NHS IT

The Department of Health has announced Christine Connelly as the first chief information officer for health and named Martin Bellamy
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17 July 2008

GPs shape the future of health IT

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs,
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17 July 2008

Nine in ten patients satisfied with GP access

Nearly nine in ten patients are satisfied with their ability to get through to their GP practice on the telephone,
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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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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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17 June 2008

Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments

NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become
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17 June 2008

Less than one in twenty patients use NHS Choices

A total of 4% of patients used the NHS Choices website as a source of information to choose their hospital
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20 May 2008

EMIS enables digital TV repeat prescriptions

Patients at around 1,400 surgeries using EMIS Access software across England will soon be able to request repeat prescriptions using
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18 April 2008

Choose and Book gives some patients wrong information

The Choose and Book system has been hit by a technical problem which has resulted in over 300 patients receiving
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