NHS Choices partners with UK online centres
NHS Choices, the health information website, has partnered with UK online centres to help people without IT access or web surfing skills to view online health information. More than 300 UK online centres will form a network of NHS Choices Community Champions, led by a flagship centre in each region. Over the next 12 months, […]
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NPfIT progress so far
Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the NHS National Programme for IT.
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Swindells to open Healthcare Computing 2008
The Department of Health’s acting chief information officer, Matthew Swindells, has been confirmed as the opening speaker at next month’s Healthcare Computing conference. Swindells will tell the conference that IT professionals should “step forward and play their part” to help bring about changes in the NHS. He commented: “Information saves lives, so information professionals need […]
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Patient information: how ICTs can help
Fiona Barr looks at the role information technology can play in providing greater information for patients.
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Steve Case says health ‘revolution’ has begun
Steve Case says Revolution Health has begun to build the first steps of a consumer revolution in healthcare, potentially as far-reaching as that unleashed by the internet.
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Google Health unveils electronic record pilot
Google is piloting a system which lets patients transfer their existing medical information to its new online Personal Health Record.
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Aberdeen A+E pilots video booths
Emergency patients in North-East Scotland can now remotely consult with a doctor using video conferencing technology.
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Trusts block junior doctors checking job e-mails
Junior doctors are unable to find out if they have been offered jobs because their trusts block access to popular e-mail providers, the BMA has claimed. Following complaints from members last week, the BMA alerted the Department of Health to the fact that many NHS trusts block external e-mails, preventing junior doctors from being notified […]
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German doctors say no to centrally stored patient records
Recent reports about incidents of data loss in the British healthcare system have alarmed medical doctors in other European countries.
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New Internet Pharmacy Logo unveiled
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has launched a new Internet Pharmacy Logo, designed to be a visual tool to help the public identify if a website is being operated by a bona fide pharmacy in Britain. The move follows research by the society which showed that over 2m people across Britain now […]
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