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6 March 2008

Greater Manchester extends telemedicine pilot

The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network has extended its pilot of a telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch, to
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4 March 2008

Healthcare assistants’ access to SCR defended

Connecting for Health has defended the decision to allow healthcare assistants to access Summary Care Records (SCRs) in accident and
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28 February 2008

Report advises annual QoF negotiation

The National Audit Office has advised the Department of Health to renegotiate the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) every year
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28 February 2008

St Helens and Knowsley COIN speeds up comms

Over 7,500 staff working across 160 GP surgeries, health centres and acute hospitals in St Helens and Knowsley, Merseyside, are
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26 February 2008

CSC yet to sign GPSoC contract

CSC has yet to sign its contract with Connecting for Health to take part in the GP Systems of Choice
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26 February 2008

North Lincs community nurses get mobile

Community nurses in North Lincolnshire are to get wireless rugged laptops in one of the largest deployments yet of mobile
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25 February 2008

The frustrations of GP e-mail

In the first of a new series of columns from a grassroots GP, Dr Neil Paul describes his experiences with
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19 February 2008

Engagement the priority for new GP clinical leads

Clinical engagement is the key priority for Connecting for Health’s two newly-appointed GP clinical leads. In an interview with EHI
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19 February 2008

New GP leads aim to connect

Dr Peter Short, one of two new GP clinical leads just appointed by Connecting for Health, is clear about how
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19 February 2008

PCT uses text messages to tackle obesity

Hammersmith and Fulham PCT has piloted the use of text messaging to calculate patients’ body mass indexes (BMIs) and contact
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