Lewisham PCT chooses iPlato for SMS reminders
A primary care trust is hoping to reduce missed GP practice appointments by 25% in a year with the aid of a text messaging service. Lewisham PCT has signed a deal with mobile healthcare applications specialist iPlato to use its Patient Care Messaging solution for patients at seven surgeries across the trust. Patients will be […]
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More problems with London child health software
The Health Protection Agency has strongly criticised the interim child health systems used by ten primary care trusts in London after a fall in immunisation rates of up to 19% by primary care trusts using the system. The HPA said eight out of ten PCTs using the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) supplied by the […]
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Press gang
Have long-running allegations of media bias against the National Programme for IT any basis in fact? IT journalist Michael Cross gives his perspective.
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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 in North London and Essex, have created difficulties in identifying which infants and children are due for jabs, issuing vaccination calls and recording whether they have received them. According to a report in the Observer […]
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White paper outlines IT role in community services
Patients will be able to complete an online self-assessment of their health and send it electronically to their GP to be stored as part of their record, under plans outlined in this week’s white paper on care outside hospital. The white paper, Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: A New Direction for Community Services, outlines a […]
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Children’s e-health strategy focuses on shared records
An information strategy published as part of the new Children’s and Maternity Services National Service Framework focuses on how health information about children held on the NHS Care Records Service could be shared with social care and education bodies, and what role the National Programme for IT, NHS trusts and local service providers have to play. The […]
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