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Requests for direct access to NCRS resisted

The Care Record Development Board (CRDB) has resisted requests for agencies concerned with child protection to draw information directly from
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Scots consumers call for information on record sharing

The Scottish Consumer Council is pressing for more information to be distributed to patients about the way their electronic health
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Chester to survey patients on outcomes

The Countess of Chester NHS Trust has signed up to a patient reported outcomes programme run by analytical benchmarking company,
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Preventing errors in phone consultations

A reminder to doctors to beware of the pitfalls of using the telephone to communicate with patients has come from
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Communicating in a crisis

Christopher Small, Director for Public Sector, Telewest Business, argues that the NHS must have robust networks in place to deal
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Comms strategy must be tested for emergencies

Every NHS organisation must test their communication strategy twice a year in order to ensure readiness for major incidents, according
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Mobile phone transmits your ECG

Engineers at Loughborough University have devised a mobile phone that easily receive, collate and send a person’s ECG and other vital signs
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Tunstall teams up with Honeywell HomMed

Tunstall, the UK telecare and telehealth solutions specialist, has formed an distribution and alliance agreement with Honeywell HomMed, a leading
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After Katrina

An unprecedented mobilisation of information technology could be just what the doctor ordered to prevent a major public health crisis
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Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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