Major NHS public websites unheard of
A new study to better understand what prevents people from using information technology to help them manage their health and care has found that few people have heard of three major NHS health information websites.
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Choose and Book Release 5.0 unveiled
NHS Connecting for Health has released the latest version of Choose and Book, saying it is more intuitive and will save time for hospitals, GPs and patients.
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DH makes choice an obligation
GPs may be given a contractual obligation to offer choice and hospitals will be required to offer appointments to named consultant-led teams from April 2011 under government proposals set out today.
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Guardian publishes death rates on blog
The Guardian has released data on death rates following vascular surgery onto its datablog. The newspaper carried out a large-scale Freedom of Information request to obtain the data on vascular surgery from 116 hospital trusts. The FOI focused on the data collected by surgeons themselves as opposed to the data that is fed into the Hospital Episodes […]
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King’s Fund hears more C&B grumbles
Patients value having a choice of hospital but GPs and providers have complaints about the way Choose and Book works to deliver it, according to a report from the King’s Fund.
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NHS Direct pilots decision aids
NHS Direct is piloting three online decision aids designed to help patients make more informed choices about medical tests and treatments where there is no clinical evidence about which are better for them. The online patient decision aids (OPDA), which are part of the first national web-based project in the UK of its kind, are […]
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King’s Fund: choice yet to drive quality
The government’s choice policy has yet to be fully implemented and has yet to drive quality in the NHS, a study by the King’s Fund has concluded. The results of a survey of patients attending eight NHS trusts and two independent sector treatment centres show that half did not remember being given a choice of […]
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Milton Keynes uses iWantGreatCare.org
NHS Milton Keynes has announced that it will be the first primary care trust in the UK to use ratings and reviews for individual GPs. The PCT has signed a deal with ratings website iWantGreatCare.org to collect information on local GPs. The PCT said patients would be actively encouraged to provide feedback each time they […]
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Great Western integrates with Ensemble
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with InterSystems’ Ensemble three months after it began implementing the platform. The integration engine has allowed the trust to directly link three applications, including its electronic discharge summaries and infection control system, to its MedWay Patient Administration System, supplied by System C. The applications are linked […]
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iSoft to go direct to South with Lorenzo
ISoft has confirmed that it will start selling Lorenzo directly to NHS trusts in the South of England, in a move that appears to put it at odds with its biggest customer, CSC.
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