HealthSpace set for big expansion
HealthSpace, the government’s secure online site for patients, is to be expanded to include shared records and GP appointment booking, according to the Health Informatics Review. The review, published last week, outlines a much wider role for HealthSpace and says its consultation highlighted strong support for the HealthSpace initiative. In future HealthSpace will be accessed […]
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New information tools promised for commissioning
The Department of Health is to develop new technology systems over the next year, to help commissioners achieve the goals of its world class commissioning framework. In its ‘Our vision for Primary and Community Care’ report, published as part of the next stage review of the NHS, the DH pledges to “enhance the range of […]
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Access to NHS care records may be widened
The Department of Health is to review extending access to the NHS Care Records Service to non-NHS staff, and bodies including private sector organisations.
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NHS Choices gets central role in future health
The DH’s flagship website has been given a central role in Lord Darzi’s plans for reforming the health service in England.
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Scottish GPs to get choice of systems
The Scottish government is to set up a national framework contract for GP systems and launch a procurement for an IT system or systems to replace GPASS, according to its new e-health strategy. The plan means Scottish practices are likely to be brought under a Scottish version of England’s GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) agreement […]
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DrThom makes the pill available online
Women can now purchase the contraceptive pill using the online medical service, DrThom without having to go to a doctor. The service will cost £29.99 for a three month supply and will only be made available to women who have taken the pill before. Patients will need to register on the DrThom website, and then […]
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Common assessment for adults pilot announced
The Department of Health will next month launch a call for interest in a pilot scheme for local authority-led consortia to produce IT systems to enable health and social care bodies to share information. The aim of the scheme is to develop systems for a Common Assessment Framework (CAF) for adults which would enable health […]
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60 Second Interview: Murray Bain
In his latest 60 second interview with the people who make NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez talks to Murray Bain, director of IT at NHS Direct.
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Call for new urgent care phone number
The Ambulance Service Network (ASN) has called for a new national telephone number for urgent non-life threatening calls, which would use real-time data to ensure patients needs are accurately recorded and paramedics have all the information, in its vision for emergency and acute care. Representative of all ambulance trusts in the UK as part of […]
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CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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