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Mobile app puts ‘doctor in your pocket’

A mobile app lets users see their GP through video consultations and order prescriptions on their smartphone or tablet.
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1 week to get support for XP extension

Trusts have been told that they have one week to get Microsoft premier support in place if they want to
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Enter the CCG loses its RAG

Dr John Lockley says there are lies, damn lies – and RAG ratings.
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Wales Open Eyes to virtual referrals

The NHS in Wales will use the Open Eyes electronic patient record system to reduce referrals and promote “seamless eyecare”
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EC consults on mobile health

Healthcare systems in Europe will need to be open to receiving data from patients collected via mobile apps, the European
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King’s Fund warns crisis “inevitable”

A financial crisis in the NHS is “inevitable” by 2015-16 or even sooner, the King’s Fund has warned in a
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CSC to cut 750 UK jobs

CSC has announced its plans to make 750 redundancies to its UK workforce as part of its “ongoing transformation strategy."
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EPRs should ‘include location data’

A patient’s location history should be a key piece of data going into new electronic health records, a geographic health
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IT director John Thornbury dies

John Thornbury, winner of EHI’s Healthcare IT Champion of the Year Award in 2010 and a long serving director of
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TPP signs GPSoC

TPP has signed the contract for the GP Systems of Choice framework, one month after the previous contract expired.
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