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17 March 2006

OmegaIP releases lone worker system

OmegaIP has released a phone-based lone worker protection system aimed at health and social care staff that allows users to
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13 March 2006

City and Hackney PCT chooses iPlato

City and Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust (tPCT) has launched a mobile phone text appointment reminder service for patients attending
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28 February 2006

Authorities flag up problems ahead for C+B plans

Health authorities have until the middle of March to submit plans for meeting the government’s Choose and Book targets but
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28 February 2006

London child health system led to vaccination problems

Problems with the introduction of a new child health information system, provided under NHS Connecting for Health to ten PCTs
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20 February 2006

New C+B incentives from April announced

Practices will be able to earn approximately £2000 per partner if they can meet government targets on choice and booking
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8 February 2006

Manchester hospitals link up with GPs

Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically
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31 January 2006

Choose and Book target now March 2007

The target date for the implementation of Choose and Book has been moved back again, this time to March 2007.
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20 December 2005

One PCT may have met October C+B target

A primary care trust is hoping it will be able to claim the second £100,000 incentive payment for Choose and
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19 December 2005

SMS appointment reminders get language boost

A GP practice in south London which is using text messaging to send out appointment reminders to its patients will soon
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16 December 2005

Pharmacists call for GP booking facility

  Pharmacy representatives are calling for a ‘Choose and Book’ style system to be set up between pharmacies and GP
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