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25 January 2007

Telecare can grow to meet demands of 2020

Telecare has the capacity to become a key tool in helping cope with future demands of the fast ageing population, once it gets past current
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22 January 2007

Council counts savings of telecare for elderly

An audit by Gloucestershire County Council looking at the amount of savings available to them by implementing telecare found that
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18 January 2007

Local authorities urged to accelerate telecare initiatives

The Care Services Improvement Partnership has urged local authorities to refer to its guidance to get the ball rolling on
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17 January 2007

South Manchester switches on PAS from CSC

The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust has announced that it has gone live across the organisation with a
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17 January 2007

Knowledge is key

John Coulthard, Microsoft UK Healthcare Director, plots the links between NHS IT reform and patient involvement.
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17 January 2007

Free online archive of medical research papers launched

Over 500,000 medical research papers are now available for free on the internet, following the launch of the UK PubMed
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15 January 2007

Wider engagement with pharmacists could yield benefits

Wider engagement with community pharmacists which could deliver a range of new services with the appropriate IT support and access
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15 January 2007

EPS tops 10m prescription mark

More than 10 million electronic prescription messages have now been transmitted using the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), NHS Connecting for
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12 January 2007

Telecare firm supports learning disability project

Telecare provider, Tunstall, has joined a new project called Through Assistive Technology to Employment (TATE), designed to increase employability for
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9 January 2007

Reports highlight telecare’s popularity

Research studies on the two biggest telecare projects in the UK have highlighted the popularity of the technology among users.
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