14 July 2006

Clinicians warn CRS will damage confidentiality

Concerns about the negative impact that the planned national database of patient records, the NHS Care Record Service national record, will
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14 July 2006

Four new areas for IT policy named by DH

Four significant new areas for NHS information and IT policy are identified in the Department of Health’s new plans for
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14 July 2006

Deaf signing shows videoconferencing’s potential

A service that offers deaf patients and their clinicians quick access to a sign language interpreter via a video link shows
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13 July 2006

Troubled child health system to be replaced

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) looks set to replace an interim child health information system deployed in London last year and
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13 July 2006

Peer podcasts for doctors’ forum

Health minister Lord Warner has recorded his first ever podcast with doctors’ network Doctors.net.uk, answering questions placed to him by
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12 July 2006

Computer therapy to help patients back to work

  Ultrasis’s Beating the Blues, a computerised cognitive behavourial therapy software package designed to offer drug-free treatment to patients with
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12 July 2006

Birmingham Children’s loses sight of appointments

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust has become the latest trust to experience problems after Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) installed new
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11 July 2006

PCT achieves 87% C+B referrals with flexible system

A primary care trust (PCT) has achieved the highest take up of Choose and Book in the country by allowing
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11 July 2006

Doctors test out RFID system for handovers

Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers.
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11 July 2006

Web clinic gains Healthcare Commission registration

  An online sexual health clinic that offers postal testing and email consultations is claiming to be the first online
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