Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices
Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the bid to run the DH flagship site, today launched Drfosterhealth.co.uk, which brings together information from its consumer guides to hospitals, consultants, birth and complementary therapists. The website aims to be “the complete online medical guide […]
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Dutch healthcare system rated Europe’s best
The Netherlands has been named as having the best healthcare system in Europe, emerging as the overall winner in the Euro Health Consumer Index 2008.
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Local IT solutions for Vascular Checks
Primary care trusts will need to develop their own informatics solutions for the national Vascular Checks programme that will begin next year, the Department of Health has said. From April 2009, PCTs must start offering preventative vascular checks to all those aged 40-74 as part of a rolling programme that should be complete by 2012/13. PCTs […]
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Multi-national effort targets illegal online drugs
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has led an operation in conjunction with Interpol and medicines regulatory bodies to tackle illegal internet medicines. The multi-national collaboration, called operation Pangea, has been working target the illegal sale and supply of medicines sold over the Internet. Operation Pangea has been co-ordinated by the Permanent […]
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Search sniffle find flu trends
Search engine giant Google has launched a flu tracking system based on how many people search for flu-related topics. Google Flu Trends will initially provide data for the United States, but the search engine hopes to cover other countries in the future. Google says there is a close relationship between how many people search for […]
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Pearl Medical ceases to trade
Pearl Medical, which provided a BlackBerry mobile device to more than 2,000 GPs, has ceased to trade. The company was acquired by market research company Opinion Health earlier this year, but has announced on its website that it ceased to trade with effect from 11 November. A statement adds: “The business has unfortunately not been […]
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BT to axe 10,000 jobs
BT has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs across the whole company, including its BT Global Services division, which is responsible for three key English NHS IT contracts. The job cuts, amounting to 6% of the total workforce, will be spread across the BT Group. Six thousand will be “agency staff, sub-contractors and offshore […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 13.11.2008
The E-Health Insider industry round up returns to cover system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Three London trusts automate medical supply systems Omnicell and its UK distributor Aventec have announced that two London foundation trusts have jointly selected OmniSupplier cabinet systems to improve their management of medical […]
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Touch screens gather patient views
A touch-screen system that allows people to feed back their views on NHS services is being rolled out across North East Essex. The system was trialled at Clacton Hospital. Ten hand-held versions were also given to district nurses. The computerised terminals ask ten core questions about NHS services and then questions about the service patients […]
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Vision 4 looks further off
Delivery of the new clinical system Vision 4 from GP system supplier INPS could be moved back to 2011. The latest update on suppliers’ planned release dates for NHS Connecting for Health applications shows that Vision 4 is being replanned; although the company’s hosted version of its Vision 3 system has become the first hosted […]
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