Liverpool self-care programme cuts emergency admissions
A study of a large scale, supported self-care programme in Liverpool has found clear reductions in emergency admissions and secondary care costs for some patients.
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A study of a large scale, supported self-care programme in Liverpool has found clear reductions in emergency admissions and secondary care costs for some patients.
Patients can now book and cancel GP appointments through a new feature launched on iPlato’s MyGP.
Babylon Health says it has launched the first AI capable of triaging patients; although the company acknowledges that it doesn’t always agree with clinicians.
While most patients are happy have their medical records used to support medical research, few are comfortable with how it is being handled, Healthwatch England has reported.
GPs remain resistant to politicians’ calls to adopt Skype consulting, with many citing poor technology and a lack of patient demand, a survey in the British Journal of General Practice has found.
This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes an award win for SiteKit, the company behind the eRedbook, and some interesting initiatives from NHS trusts.
Attempts to create a personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain future if new funding is not found, a wide-ranging review by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit for NHS England has concluded.

NHS England is expanding the rollout of Hexarad to help patients in the North East
Our latest roundup features Powys Teaching Health Board rolling out an electronic prescribing and medicines
Thousands of women could avoid invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected womb cancer under an NHS

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has begun rolling out the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has said NHS staff face the sack or