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9 September 2008

DH backs away from 084 telephone ban

The Department of Health has no immediate plans to ban use of 084 numbers in the NHS, health minister Ben
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8 September 2008

Different consent models for coaching services

The first primary care trust to use a telephone support service from private contractor Health Dialog has backed the use
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5 September 2008

Patient’s awareness of treatment choices stalls

The latest national patient choice survey shows little growth in awareness of the government’s flagship policy on choice with less
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4 September 2008

Testing, testing

Informing Healthcare has opened new research laboratories in Swansea. Lyn Whitfield paid them a visit.
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4 September 2008

Call for ‘rolling’ register to replace census

Data from GP patient registers could be one of a range of databases used to provide a ‘rolling’ register of
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2 September 2008

How CfH could make my day

In his latest column grassroots GP Dr Neil Paul offers suggestions to Connecting for Health on making GPs’ lives easier.
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2 September 2008

Slight increase in satisfaction with PBC data quality

GPs have become marginally more satisfied with the quality of the data they receive for practice-based commissioning over the past
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2 September 2008

Individual Health Record extended to acute care

Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care. Staff
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29 August 2008

Fake sicknotes for sale online

Fake sicknotes, complete with doctors’ stamps, are being sold online. The DoctorsNoteStore.com website is selling the fake doctors’ sicknotes for
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28 August 2008

Wirral PCT faces local data privacy backlash

Wirral Primary Care Trust has delayed plans to introduce a telephone support service provided by a US contractor, after a
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