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12 June 2008

NHS Direct diverts patients from GP and A&E

NHS Direct has published research showing that four out of ten callers are advised to self-care and that three quarters
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11 June 2008

Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London

Kevin Jarrold, NHS London’s chief information officer and the London Programme for IT’s regional implementation director, has pledged to have
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11 June 2008

FOI appeal on summary records legal status

A GP campaigning against the consent model for the Summary Care Record has taken his battle to the Information Commissioner’s
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10 June 2008

Caution urged on EPS release two contracts

Community pharmacists have been warned to take care when signing contracts for systems to support release two of the Electronic
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10 June 2008

Connecting for Health to take over NHS Choices

NHS Connecting for Health is to take over responsibility for the NHS Choices portal, the government’s national patient portal for
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10 June 2008

King’s Fund calls for ‘virtual polyclinics’

A leading health think-tank has recommended that the Department of Health should pilot ‘virtual polyclinics’ in a major report on
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9 June 2008

Wiltshire PCT deploys new e-referral system

Clinicians at Wiltshire PCT are now able to electronically refer patients to local primary care services using a new system
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6 June 2008

Why the NHS needs a new generation of CIOs

Dr Paul Whatling, International Consulting Lead for Perot Systems, considers the changing role of CIOs.
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5 June 2008

Map of Medicine partners with DH cancer networks

The Map of Medicine is partnering with all cancer networks across England to localise the cancer care pathways already provided
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4 June 2008

Care charities say telecare is ‘crucial to future’

The chief executives of two UK care charities have stressed the importance of telecare services and called for the current
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