5 January 2006

Bedside phone enquiry likely to raise wider issues

The chief executive of hospital bedside telephone and television supplier, Patientline, has predicted that a regulatory investigation into its business
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4 January 2006

Choose and Book’s problems continue

Technical problems caused the national Choose and Book service to be unavailable for most of Tuesday 3 January, the day
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4 January 2006

One PCT qualified for Choose and Book payment

Durham Dales Primary Care Trust has been confirmed as the only PCT in England to qualify for the second stage
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4 January 2006

UCLH plays smart with cards

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has become one of the first big hospital trusts in England to
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3 January 2006

Pharmacists urged to contact PCTs on smart cards

Pharmacy representatives are telling pharmacists to contact their primary care trusts over smartcard availability as Connecting for Health publishes its
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3 January 2006

Physio and OT telephone-based services win awards

Two telephone based systems for physiotherapy and occupational therapy have been selected as winners in the 2005 NHS health and
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3 January 2006

DH launches cosmetic surgery info site

The DH have launched a new section of their site designed to offer advice and information to patients considering cosmetic
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2 January 2006

Choice without C&B

The patient choice agenda is going ahead despite delays in rollout of electronic bookings over Choose and Book, E-Health Insider
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30 December 2005

NHS suffering from broken spine

NHS sites experienced acute spine problems in the week before Christmas, resulting in key systems being unavailable to NHS staff, and
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30 December 2005

Talking cure

Steve Tocker from Softech Global outlines how voice recognition and digital dictation can be used in the healthcare sector, and
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