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20 December 2006

Rewiring Long Term Care

As major work starts on 'demonstrators' for e-enabled long term care, Colin Jervis analyses the challenge.
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20 December 2006

NHS Direct launches on Freeview for Christmas

NHS Direct is bracing itself for its busiest Christmas period since its launch in 1999, having launched a new channel
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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28 November 2006

Thousands call NHS Direct in poisoning fear

Thousands have been in contact with NHS Direct fearing they may have been contaminated by the radioactive material used to
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15 November 2006

Premium-rate doctor helpline aimed at busy people

A premium rate telephone service has been set up that allows callers to talk directly to a doctor 24 hours
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19 October 2006

NHS Direct patient database approaches first birthday

NHS Direct, the health service’s telephone and online advice service will celebrate the first birthday of its single national database
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11 October 2006

Plain Healthcare wins new WiC Contract

Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust (PCT) has awarded the contract for software for its new walk-in-centre to clinical decision specialists
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9 October 2006

Urgent care IT improvement discussed

Seamless patching of voice and data information between urgent care providers and access to electronic patient records for everyone involved
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3 October 2006

Telehealth must get smarter, says report

A new report calling for ‘more intelligence at the core of healthcare IT systems’ claims that while the current e-health
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18 September 2006

GP wins award for patient record access initiative

Dr Amir Hannan has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group
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