Digital care plans by 2015
Everyone with a long-term condition or disability must have a digital personalised care plan accessible online or via a mobile phone app by 2015, under a package of measures launched today by NHS England.
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Friends and Family Test for GPs by 2015
All GPs, community and mental health services must be collecting Friends and Family Test data from January 2015.
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Kiosk trial for Friends and Family Test
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is piloting the use of self check-in kiosks and other touch screen devices to do the Friends and Family Test.
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Friends and Family Test data published
Surrey and Sussex gets patient feedback
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is implementing a patient experience system to collect feedback on its services.
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Hunt talks up NHS IT projects in US
The government’s plan to sequence 100,000 human genomes and link these to electronic health records will be “as significant as the founding of the Internet”, health secretary Jeremy Hunt told a US audience yesterday.
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NHS England to publish IT strategy
NHS England is developing an NHS Technology Strategy and Roadmap, setting a national direction for NHS IT.
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It’s big, but is it clever?
Robert Francis’ final report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal is huge, but will its impact be in proportion to its size, asks Lyn Whitfield.
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Paperless NHS means paperless referrals
The NHS Commissioning Board’s planning guidance, issued today, has confirmed that a “paperless NHS” means paperless referrals by 2015.
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