GP ratings launched on NHS Choices
The Department of Health has launched a controversial online rating service to let patients rate and compare GP practices.
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Gloucester deploys Aruba wireless LAN
Cheltenam general hospital Gloucester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a wireless network from Aruba across both of its hospitals. The trust has deployed Aruba’s 802.11n network across Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals and its headquarters after going out tender in October 2008. Steve Edwards, its head of IT development services, said that the […]
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Texts double smokers’ quit rate
An international study has shown that programmes that use text messaging to help people stop smoking can double the chances of them being able to kick the habit for up to a year. The study involved 2,600 people taking part in four trials conducted in Norway, New Zealand and Britain where text messages were used […]
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SCR data accreditation ‘to be dropped’
NHS Connecting for Health looks likely to drop the requirement for GP practice data to be accredited before Summary Care Records are created and uploaded to the Spine. Practices are currently required to have completed component two of the IM&T directed enhanced service on data accreditation or a local equivalent before data is uploaded. However, Dr […]
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Google spreads Flu Trends
Google has expanded its Flu Trends tracking tool to include 16 more countries. The company, which launched the free tool in the US in November 2008, had already made the tool available in Australia, New Zealand and Mexico. The latest expansion means it is now tracking the spread of influenza across Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, […]
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Unite calls for better IT training
Health visitors believe they are not getting enough IT training on their local electronic patient record systems, according to a union survey. A poll of 530 health visitors and school nurses conducted by Unite/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association found that 310 had access to local electronic patient record and 92% of those had received […]
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Cheshire and Wirral encrypts email
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it will use a trust-wide external email encryption system from technology infrastructure company, ANS Group. Dave Walliker, head of informatics at the trust, told E-Health Insider the key driver behind the deployment was the trust’s need to liaise with and pass information between various organisations. […]
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Tim Kelsey at E-Health Insider Live ’09
Tim Kelsey, chair of Dr Foster Intelligence, and a noted champion of the need for the state to hold and use personal data, has been announced as a keynote speaker at E-Health Insider Live ‘09.
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e-Health Week 2010 announced
The World of Health IT (WoHIT) Conference and Exhibition and the ministerial event known as the High Level e-Health Conference will be jointly run next March in an initiative called e-Health Week 2010. The conference will be held at the Convention Centre CCIB in Barcelona from 15-18 March 2010 and is being organised by the […]
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Hammersmith and Fulham text quitters
GP practices in NHS Hammersmith and Fulham have used text messaging to collect information on patients’ smoking status and invite patients for smoking cessation advice. The primary care trust used iPlato’s Patient Care messaging system to send text messages to 6,085 patients from 22 surgeries requesting a patient’s smoking status. From those patients 45% responded […]
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