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29 October 2007

NHSmail promotes free SMS for reminders

NHSmail users are being encouraged to use the system’s free text messaging to remind patients about healthcare appointments. Contractors, Cable & Wireless’
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26 October 2007

New information governance board announced

Members of the new National Information Governance Board for health and social care in England, the body who will be
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18 October 2007

NHS failing on offering patients choice

The NHS is failing to offer patients a choice of hospital for their outpatient appointments with barely 10% of primary care
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25 September 2007

New clinical director for Summary Care Record

Ending confusion about the content and purpose of the Summary Care Record is the number one priority for the project’s
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20 September 2007

IT underpins development of NHS Direct

NHS Direct is banking on new technology to help deliver better services and cope with record levels of demand, Joe
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17 September 2007

‘No alternative’ to MTAS system likely for 2008

Remedy UK, the group set up in the wake of the junior doctors’ job crisis earlier this year, has called
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10 September 2007

Lewisham cuts missed appointments with SMS

Lewisham PCT has reduced the number of missed appointments in 16 practices by 27% by using text message appointment reminders
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30 August 2007

Report highlights NPfIT’s ‘impressive milestones’

‘Impressive milestones in the implementation of the National Programme for IT’ have been highlighted as one of the major achievements
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30 August 2007

New system supports care equipment service

Ethitec’s ELMS2 system is being used to help modernise the community care equipment loans service across three West Country primary
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24 July 2007

Choose and Book’s new champion

A system that has managed to book 4.4m hospital appointments for patients in England must be doing something right. So
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