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14 April 2008

DH publishes Cornish 60-year health history

The Department of Health has published a new study looking at the health history of a class of Cornish school
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7 April 2008

Pharmacists may get access to patient care records

The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved.
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4 April 2008

EHI’s industry news roundup 04.04.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 4 April 2008 featuring supplier news and events. Supplier news
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19 March 2008

Scotland to pilot new sexual health system

A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in
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17 March 2008

Electronic ‘fit notes’ could replace sick notes

Paper-based sick notes should be replaced with electronic ‘fit notes’ according to the first ever review of the health of
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17 March 2008

New clinical lead expresses support for SCR

Personal experience convinced a new national clinical lead (NCL) for Connecting for Health that electronic records were an important future
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14 March 2008

Humana issue pedometers in Stoke

Humana Europe is partnering with Stoke-on-Trent PCT to help local patients lose weight and reduce onset of obesity affected conditions,
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19 February 2008

Health informatics one of the ‘grand challenges’

Advancing health informatics has been listed as one of the 21st century’s greatest challenges by a panel of leading engineers
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29 December 2007

York University to study BioBank data use

Social scientists at the University of York are to investigate public attitudes on how medical information on hundreds of thousands
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4 December 2007

QoF architects call for changes

The architects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) have called for a raft of changes to the scheme as
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