Yorks and Humber plans telehealth hub
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber is considering spending £1m on a telehealth hub as part of its cost-saving plans.
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MPs set out out pharmacy manifesto
A group of MPs is calling for pharmacists to be given read-write access to the NHS Care Records Service by the next government within its first 100 days in power. The All-Party Pharmacy Group (APPG) has launched a Policy Action Plan setting out 12 calls for actions that the MPs say the next government should […]
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Who is your champion of the year?
Nominations are open for Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year; a special category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT that is decided by you, the reader. If you would like to nominate somebody for this award, then please send an email to Emma Corbett naming your champion, telling us what they […]
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RCP and CfH launch online standards tool
The Royal College of Physicians and NHS Connecting for Health have launched e-learning modules to support national standards for hospital record keeping drawn up by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit and signed off by the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges. The online tool allows users to complete training two modules; one covering the principles of good […]
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Boomers lead on personal health records
Personal health records have become a reality for millions of Americans, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference has heard.
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NHS to be using NHSmail by 2013
The head of the NHSmail programme has said that he wants “most” NHS organisations to have migrated to NHSmail by the time its current contract expires in July 2013.
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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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100 polyclinics to shake-up London
NHS London has set out a five year strategy for overhauling healthcare in the capital that includes plans to move care out of hospitals, open more than 100 polyclinics, and make greater use of email and telephone consultations. IT is at the heart of many of the plans outlined in the newly-published First Stage Report on the capital’s strategic […]
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My diagnosis on NHSmail
Our GP columnist Dr Neil Paul tries out NHSmail and finds that while there is room for improvement he is pretty impressed.
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Wolverhampton moves GPs to PCT network
Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust is moving all its GP practices on to its network as part of a major initiative to improve data security. So far, 56 of Wolverhampton’s GP practices have been moved across to the PCT network in a project that began in September 2008. The PCT expects to complete work at a final […]
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