Premium-rate doctor helpline aimed at busy people
A premium rate telephone service has been set up that allows callers to talk directly to a doctor 24 hours a day without having to speak with receptionists or waiting for a call back. Talk to a Doctor is accessible either through a 24hr 0900 number, or through a freephone number and a £29.95 credit […]
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DH carrying out ‘confidential’ review of CfH
E-Health Insider has learned that an urgent ‘confidential’ review of the NHS IT programme and structure of Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for its delivery, has been launched by the new chief executive of the NHS David Nicholson. The new boss of the health service has commissioned a review of the £6.2bn NHS digitisation […]
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Euroking’s new maternity goes live at Heart of England
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital trust to go live with EuroKing Miracle’s E3 third generation Maternity Information System. The foundation trust, which is one of the largest in the UK, went live with the upgrade to the Miracle MIS at its two major sites, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals, […]
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GPASS abandoned by Tayside and Grampian
NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian have confirmed that they will be abandoning the General Practice Administration System for Scotland (GPASS) in favour of INPS’s Vision system. The trusts decided to find alternative systems after becoming fed up with the problems practices were experiencing with GPASS. Critics say that GPASS has been plagued with problems since […]
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Winchester first on second generation e-prescribing
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has become the first UK trust to install a second generation Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration system, developed by JAC Computer Services. The 450-bed Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester is thought to be first UK hospital trust to replace an existing EPMA with a next generation system, a […]
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Wales starts summary record project
Out of hours clinicians in Gwent are to have access to an emergency summary care record in a project which is expected to eventually cover the whole of Wales. The Emergency Health Record (EHR) to be used in Gwent from this month closely mirrors the emergency care summary project in Scotland as well as elements […]
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iBleep PDA paging made available to all trusts
A new software system called iBleep, designed to simplify communications with doctors at night, is set to be rolled out across the NHS in April next year. The iBleep Rapid Response system is a web-based application, accessed over a PDA, that provides a wireless system for communication between hospital-based doctors and their wards, allowing voice contact […]
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DH survey reveals choice recall of just 30%
Only 30% of patients can recall being offered a choice of hospital for their outpatient appointments, according to figures from the National Patient Choice Survey, commissioned by the Department of Health. Around 79,000 patients were questioned by Ipsos MORI to monitor their awareness of choice and to see if they could recall the choices of […]
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1000 Vision practices using Choose and Book
Primary Care IT specialists INPS are celebrating reaching 1000 GP practices using their Vision clinical system connected to Choose and Book to refer patients for specialist care. The INPS Vision system is used by 20 percent of English GP practices and includes software allowing GPs to use Choose and Book on the system, as opposed […]
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‘Googling’ aids difficult diagnoses
Doctors puzzling over a difficult diagnosis might do well to try “googling” their patients’ symptoms, according to research published by the British Medical Journal. The researchers, from Australia, reached their conclusion after “googling for a diagnosis” using the Google search engine on 26 cases records published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005. […]
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