NHS Choices

Archive
15 July 2009

Info underpins National Care Service

The government has identified telecare and online information services as two of the foundations of its proposed National Care Service.
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22 June 2009

NHS Choices may increase inequality

Relying on online sources such as NHS Choices to deliver information to patients could lead the NHS to sustain or
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17 June 2009

Switchover to Digital Britain

The government has confirmed that it wants universal access to 2Mbps broadband by 2012, arguing that this is vital for
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16 June 2009

HealthSpace expansion plans shelved

The Department of Health has shelved plans for a massive expansion of its personal health record project, HealthSpace.
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19 May 2009

BMA works with NHS Choices on GP ratings

The BMA’s GP committee has confirmed it is working with NHS Choices to enable patients to rate and review their
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13 May 2009

Capita wins quality mark contract

The Department of Health has appointed Capita to manage the Information Standard accreditation scheme that is due to be launched
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21 April 2009

AHPs embrace Choose and Book

Yvonne Pettigrew, CfH’s national clinical lead for allied health professionals Use of Choose and Book for referrals to allied health
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17 April 2009

NHS Choices to publish mortality rates

NHS Choices is to start publishing hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios on its website. The government’s flagship health site already publishes generalised
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16 April 2009

Tories would ‘end monopoly’ of NHS Choices

The Conservative Party would remove NHS Choices from Department of Health control and force it to compete on the same
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7 April 2009

Information prescriptions expanded

The Department of Health is publicising information prescriptions and has said that an information accreditation scheme should be launched later
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