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8 January 2008

Brown pledges telehealth for 100,000

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to offer telehealth services to 100,000 people with long term conditions in a speech
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7 January 2008

Discharge letter targets will create two-tier care

The NHS Alliance claims government targets for discharge letters will create a two tier system on a critical patient safety
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7 January 2008

Pfizer partners with PCT on telephone care

Pfizer is working with a PCT to deliver telephone-based care management expects to sign up more PCTs within the next
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4 January 2008

C+B incentives to go to extended access

GP incentive payments for Choose and Book will be redirected to pay for extended access to GP practices from April
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4 January 2008

NHS Direct demand breaks seasonal records

Over one million people contacted NHS Direct in England over the 11 day Christmas and New Year holidays, breaking all
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3 January 2008

CSW awarded contract for Welsh Individual Health Record

Informing Healthcare, the NHS Wales IT agency, has awarded a three year contract to CSW Group Ltd to commence implementation
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3 January 2008

Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –
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3 January 2008

A year in review: LSPs in 2007

EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service
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2 January 2008

Up to 200,000 request SCR opt-out forms

An estimated 200,000 people have requested or downloaded opt-out documents for the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR), according to a campaign group. The
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31 December 2007

Improved point of care service for students

Connecting for Health (CfH) says it is working with strategic health authorities and primary care trusts to help GP practices to
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