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23 July 2013

Leicester telehealth scheme expanded

A telehealth project for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has prevented 107 hospital admissions in Leicester over the past
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23 July 2013

Western Isles is wi-fi hotspot

NHS Western Isles is rolling out a free wi-fi network for staff and patients in an effort to increase mobile
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23 July 2013

Nurses still struggling to influence IT

The Royal College of Nursing has called for more nursing input into IT and more IT training for nurses after
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22 July 2013

East Kent RIS problems affect patients

The go-live of a new radiology information system has caused delays at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
22 July 2013

Health data access for just £1

NHS England wants to reduce the cost for researchers to access expanded healthcare datasets from around £30,000 to £1.
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22 July 2013

EPRs essential for HES expansion plans

Hospitals will need electronic patient record systems to meet NHS England’s “ambitious” plans for extracting a significantly expanded hospital dataset
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22 July 2013

South London Cerner go-live delayed

The go-live of Cerner Millennium at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital has been delayed until March next year.
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19 July 2013

NHS orgs invest in reference database

Eight NHS trusts and commissioning support units have invested in a weekly updated reference database of healthcare organisations.
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19 July 2013

Outsourcing explored for NHS Choices

NHS England is looking to outsource the provision of the “daughter of NHS Choices” beyond April 2014.
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18 July 2013

NHS Direct 0845 closure costs £70m

The decommissioning of NHS Direct’s 0845 telephone service in favour of NHS 111 has cost nearly £70m, says a National
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