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11 March 2008

Johnson steps up pressure on 0844 numbers

Health secretary Alan Johnson has stepped up the pressure on practices using 0844 telephone numbers as campaigners draw up a
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11 March 2008

Four pilots for shared social care records

Three local authorities and one care trust are to pilot links between their social care systems and the NHS Personal
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7 March 2008

Cheshire Council says telecare now mainstream

Cheshire County Council has said that it has made telecare services for older people a mainstream part of its service
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6 March 2008

Greater Manchester extends telemedicine pilot

The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network has extended its pilot of a telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch, to
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4 March 2008

Patient information: how ICTs can help

Fiona Barr looks at the role information technology can play in providing greater information for patients.
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4 March 2008

NHS Direct calls cost £16 each

Calls answered by NHS Direct in the last year were costed at just over £16 each, official figures from the information and
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3 March 2008

Conservatives hold review of NHS IT

The Conservative party has confirmed it is currently undertaking an independent review of the National Programme for IT. Shadow health
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3 March 2008

Berlin health conference will focus on IT

Next week sees hundreds of senior health officials from across Europe congregate in Berlin, Germany, for the 4th Annual World
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29 February 2008

DH seeks tougher sanctions for security breaches

The government is seeking an increase in penalties for NHS staff that breach the Data Protection Act. Health minister, Ben
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28 February 2008

Google CEO unveils Google Health

The veil came off the world’s worst-kept secret in healthcare IT Thursday, as Google chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt
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