Records come round again
Political parties keep promising patients online access to their medical records. EHI News editor Rebecca McBeth assesses progress in the latest feature on the coalitionâs
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Political parties keep promising patients online access to their medical records. EHI News editor Rebecca McBeth assesses progress in the latest feature on the coalitionâs
Health secretary Jeremy Huntâs call for a âpaperlessâ NHS was the big healthcare IT initiative of the past five years of coalition government. But are
Paul Hodgkin, the former GP and founder of Patient Opinion, reflects on a non-Marxist, Marxian revolution in his last column for EHI.
Critics of care.data say it is sitting in the âlast chance saloonâ. Sam Sachdeva looks at its prospects in the second of EHI Newsâ features
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trustâs prescribing information and communication system helped it to win EHIâs latest award for âpromoting patient safetyâ. Paul Curran reports.

The success of the Womenâs Health Strategy will depend on whether innovation can be adopted

We need to treat patients as partners in a journey, writes Lee Rickles, CIO at
A âtransactionalâ approach to implementation is bound to fail, warns Hayley Payne, associate director, children,
The Frontline Productivity programme could have a profound effect on the NHS, writes Thomas Webb,

We need a more proactive approach to care to meet growing demand, writes Markus Bolton,