Patient Opinion opened to MPs
Patient Opinion, the website that allows patients to post comments about the health services they have used, has set up a new service for Westminster MPs.
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NHS Direct pilots home working
NHS Direct is to consider allowing a large number of its staff to work from home, if a pilot shows positive results. The telephone and web advice service has already closed one of its sites in Portsmouth in order to allow staff to work from home. The organisation, which employs more than 3,000 people across the […]
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Think-tank calls for self-service NHS
A think tank has called for people to be given the option to register with the NHS nationally rather than with a GP in order to speed up the adoption of online services.
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Experts fear Punch and Judy election
The general election Policy and healthcare IT experts have urged an incoming government to resist the temptation to shake up the NHS and radically reorganise its IT. Asked to put forward manifesto ideas for the general election that is likely to be called after the Easter break, commentators from think tanks, analysts and the health […]
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It’s party time
With the general election fast approaching, Sarah Bruce asked policy makers, analysts and trusts what they would put in their health IT manifesto.
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PCTI delivers to GPs in Herefordshire
The discharge summary target NHS Herefordshire is delivering discharge summaries and radiology report messages to its 24 GP practices using software from document management specialists PCTI. The primary care trust said it wanted a solution to send discharge summaries from all inpatient wards at Hereford Hospital and radiology reports from the hospital’s Carestream radiology information […]
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NHS to be using NHSmail by 2013
The head of the NHSmail programme has said that he wants “most” NHS organisations to have migrated to NHSmail by the time its current contract expires in July 2013.
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Half of GP practices judged by patients
More than 50% of GP practices have now been commented on or rated by patients on NHS Choices, according to the Department of Health. Latest figures show that patients have rated or left a comment about 4,661 out of 8,300 GP practices in England since website launched its GP ratings functionality in October. A total […]
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My diagnosis on NHSmail
Our GP columnist Dr Neil Paul tries out NHSmail and finds that while there is room for improvement he is pretty impressed.
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Sites link up for mental health ratings
The patient feedback site Patient Opinion has linked up with NHS Choices to enable patients to comment online on mental health services. The partnership between the Department of Health’s flagship website and Patient Opinion is due to be launched today by care services minister Phil Hope. The DH said the partnership means service users, carers […]
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