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7 October 2005

HSCIC in talks with private sector partner

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), the Department of Health agency with prime responsibility for co-ordinating NHS and
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4 October 2005

Listening exercise shows support for central database

Support for the idea of a central NHS database and a desire for more ‘joined up’ social and health care
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28 September 2005

Adults with learning difficulties excluded

The first national survey of adults with learning difficulties in England has highlighted the extent to which they face hardship
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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8 September 2005

London trusts go for IP telephony

Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four
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6 September 2005

Record-keeping weakest link in QoF scores

The worst performing indicator group in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) last year was records and information, according to
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2 September 2005

Predictive risk software launched for NHS

  New predictive risk software which will provide the NHS with an ‘early warning’ system to help some patients avoid
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31 August 2005

QoF results publication reveals quality of care

Practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcome Framework for England are being published today although technical problems have delayed
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30 August 2005

QoF data to be published online

Practices will no longer have to release Quality and Outcome Framework data if asked to do so under the Freedom of
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26 August 2005

SMS event alert system planned for care workers

iSentry have announced the release of their Digital Witness service, a web-based compliance monitoring and alert system aimed at health
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