Mental Health

Archive
27 June 2005

Patients need reminders for online depression self-help

  Websites that only offer self-help for people suffering from depression can be effective as those that also offer external clinical
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14 June 2005

Solving the maze

Gerry Yantis and Nikolai Segora from Capgemini argue for greater integration between IT programmes in primary care.
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23 May 2005

Minister launches patient ‘guarantee’ on records

The government has published a series of commitments in the form of a guarantee on how nationally held electronic health
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19 May 2005

Choose and Book may get mobile txt reminders

Plans are being drawn up to introduce a national automatic appointment reminder service to cut missed appointments by patients, a
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26 April 2005

Awards gallery

Photos of the winners and speakers at last week's E-Health Innovation Awards ceremony in London, organised by E-Health Insider and
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25 April 2005

Panic advice makes online therapy more effective

Internet-based self-help cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) programmes to treat anxiety and depression are more effective in the later stages of
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21 April 2005

E-Health Innovation Awards winners announced

Health technology projects that help diabetic patients, speed up results reporting for X-rays and scans and deliver vital information for
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21 April 2005

E-Health Innovation awards honour primary care

Primary care IT developments were well represented among the winners of the first E-Health Innovation Awards 2005. Projects that help
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20 April 2005

Delivery delays mount across the national programme

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that there are delays in implementing the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in
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7 April 2005

Unreliable patients most likely to ask for SMS reminders

Patients most likely to be ‘Did Not Attends’ (DNAs) at outpatient clinics are also the most likely to sign up for text
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