Power to the people?
Will the information revolution drive choice and quality in the NHS? Fiona Barr weighs up the evidence.
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More doubt cast on impact of info
Presenting high quality data to patients is unlikely to directly drive improvements in the quality of care, according to a paper in the BMJ.
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DH to stay with new public health arm
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has quietly dropped his pre-election pledge to rename the Department of Health the Department of Public Health.
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Info revolution ‘undermined by cuts’
Patient information services in more than 50% of NHS trusts are under threat or being cut, according to a survey by the Patient Information Forum.
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Dr Foster and Birmingham clash again
One of two trusts identified by Dr Foster as having higher than expected death rates and more deaths than would be expected after surgery has described its methods as “flawed”. Dr Dave Rosser, executive director of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, issued a statement to various media organisations following the publication of this year’s […]
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Making patient control the goal
Patient control of records is the government’s stated goal. Fiona Barr teases out the challenges ahead.
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Connelly says patients will have control
The NHS director general of informatics has confirmed that the government plans to provide patients with the ability to ‘control’ who can access to their electronic records, rather than views or summaries.
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Greenhalgh attacks HealthSpace response
The author of the definitive study of the personal health record portal HealthSpace has attacked the Department of Health’s response to the research.
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Connelly: NHS must look beyond NPfIT
The Department of Health’s director general for informatics says that it is time to think beyond the national programme, or risk being held prisoner by it.
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NHS PHR HealthSpace fails to deliver
Patients have found the government’s personal health record project HealthSpace neither useful nor easy to use and only a tiny percentage have so far signed up for it, according to a study published today.
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