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20 June 2008

Call for new urgent care phone number

The Ambulance Service Network (ASN) has called for a new national telephone number for urgent non-life threatening calls, which would
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17 June 2008

Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has disbanded its Care Records System team and will implement a
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13 June 2008

Intel launches online community for carers

Intel has launched a new social network site intended to bring together carers, nurses and patients, enabling them to share
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11 June 2008

Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London

Kevin Jarrold, NHS London’s chief information officer and the London Programme for IT’s regional implementation director, has pledged to have
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10 June 2008

King’s Fund calls for ‘virtual polyclinics’

A leading health think-tank has recommended that the Department of Health should pilot ‘virtual polyclinics’ in a major report on
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20 May 2008

E-health 2.0: health’s consumer revolution

E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.
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15 May 2008

Suppliers set out vision for ASCC

EHI spoke to a number of ASCC lot 2 suppliers to see what they hope to achieve from the new
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13 May 2008

Largest ever UK telecare trial starts

The start of the UK’s largest ever trial of telecare and telehealth in a £31m programme covering 6000 people has
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8 May 2008

Inside story – ASCC

EHI looks at the unanswered questions of ASCC, Joe Fernandez reports.
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8 May 2008

Ofcom forecasts growth in healthcare IT

Media regulator Ofcom has picked healthcare as a key sector for the widespread deployment of information technology in its latest
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