Online patient engagement tool launched
An online tool has been launched by the Department of Health to enable doctors to access hundreds of pieces of research on how to engage patients in healthcare.
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
As the BMA has another fret about the NHS Summary Care Record, the editor of E-Health Insider asks: where are the clinical champions for NHS IT?
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O’Brien claims govt may lock-in NPfIT
Conservative health spokesman Stephen O’Brien has accused the government of trying to tie the hands of an incoming Tory government over the future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, O’Brien said he was “very concerned” that the current negotiations that are being held […]
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PCT suspends TPP mobile urgent care
The second primary care trust to deploy TPP’s urgent care solution has stopped using the mobile solution because of problems with poor reception.
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Hacker fears close NHS Appraisal website
The NHS Appraisal Toolkit has been taken offline for almost a month following concerns about its vulnerability to hackers. The toolkit, which was established nine years ago, was taken down at 4pm on Tuesday afternoon after “routine testing” showed that certain aspects are “not sufficiently robust to withstand modern day hacking.” In a statement the Department […]
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EMIS LV repeat service from Pharmacy2U
Pharmacy2U has launched an online repeat requesting service for pharmacists and patients in a partnership with GP software supplier EMIS. The MedsRequest software has been designed to enable pharmacists or patients to request a repeat prescription from practices using EMIS LV. The system works once practices have enabled EMIS’s free Medicines Manager module. The pharmacy […]
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Lamb sets out ideas for NHS and IT
Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has called for NHS Connecting for Health to be scrapped, the Care Records Service to be abandoned, and Choose and Book to be revamped as a simple online booking system. The MP has set out his proposals in a document, The NHS: a liberal blueprint, which the party […]
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ContactPoint ‘suffers security breaches’
The children’s database ContactPoint has suffered at least three security breaches since its launch, according to an investigation by a national newspaper. The Daily Telegraph has reported that Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to local authorities already running ContactPoint revealed security breaches in three local authorities last year. The newspaper said its investigations found […]
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Paris on the Mersey
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen Logica to provide the Paris system to support child health and community services in the North West.
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Lansley may abandon LSP contracts
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider contracts that are part of The National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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