Bainbridge warns of need for telecare
Health and social care services have five years to develop the telehealth and telecare services they will need to cope with an ageing population, Dr Mike Bainbridge, NHS Connecting for Health’s clinical architect, has warned. Speaking at a fringe session at this year’s NHS Confederation conference, Dr Bainbridge said that ageing combined with an increasing […]
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Consumer health IT identified as disruptive change
The NHS Confederation has identified new IT services that could change the behaviour of patients as some of the most disruptive innovations facing the health service. In a paper for debate at its annual conference this week, the Confederation reviews a number of technologies that could have a significant impact on the NHS over the next […]
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NHS Direct diverts patients from GP and A&E
NHS Direct has published research showing that four out of ten callers are advised to self-care and that three quarters of them would otherwise have gone to their GP or A&E. The evaluation by IFF Research, which is plainly intended to address claims that NHS Direct duplicates or even adds to the work of other […]
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Health select committee brands DH ‘inept’
The Commons health select committee has described the Department of Health’s management of the introduction of a new system of medical training as “inept” and criticised both its leaders and the heads of the medical profession for failing to take responsibility for it. In a strongly worded report, the committee identifies failings at every stage […]
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Ofcom forecasts growth in healthcare IT
Media regulator Ofcom has picked healthcare as a key sector for the widespread deployment of information technology in its latest report on trends. Tomorrow’s Wireless World, the third annual report from its technology research programme, says “breakthroughs leading to fundamental shifts in the underlying science” of ICTs are rare, and there is unlikely to be […]
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