Boots launches free online NHS repeat prescription service
The service allows customers to directly order their repeat prescription from their GP record and have it sent to Boots for dispensing.
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Virtual reality app aims to entice international GPs to the UK
The interactive video follows a patient through their interactions with the multidisciplinary team; from the moment they make a GP appointment.
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Digital Health News readers vote in favour of exposing NHS App APIs
Digital Health News ran a poll to ask readers whether they think Matthew Gould’s comments about the app were right or not.
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LIVI launch in north west Surrey hailed ‘extremely successful’
The online GP provider allows patients to book an appointment at times that suit them, including during evenings, weekends and on bank holidays.
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Digitally supported care needs to be ‘the norm’, NHSI says
The NHS Interim People Plan found genomics, artificial intelligence and robotics will “significantly influence” how care in delivered in the future.
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Digital portal to streamline inclusion in NHS App library launched
It will act as an online self-service tool for developers, aimed at making the process of securing a place in the app library easier.
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Online portal launched for people with Type 2 diabetes
The NHS England initiative aims to help people manage their condition to reduce the need for extra medication and unnecessary hospital visits.
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‘Skype doctors’ prevent 3,000 A&E visits in Manchester
The on-call Skype NHS team takes around 8,000 calls per year from wardens working in sheltered accommodation, care home staff and community teams.
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Northern Care Alliance launches electronic risk assessment for blood clots
Clinicians will begin using the electronic form to assess inpatients for clots including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) from 4 June.
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GP at Hand’s primary care network application to be ‘considered’
Hammersmith and Fulham CCG has said it would “consider” an application from Babylon’s GP at Hand to become its own primary care network.
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