Health coaches get access to patient records
A primary care trust is planning to set up a health coaching service giving Bupa health coaches access to patient information unless residents opt-out within a short timeframe.
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Kent GP-led centres pick Adastra
Two GP-led health centres in Kent have chosen software from out-of-hours provider Adastra as their patient management system. The centres in Medway and Swale, run by London-based Dulwich Medical Centre, will use the software to support their seven day a week service, offering scheduled and unscheduled appointments to both registered and unregistered patients. Dulwich Medical […]
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Telecare features in government’s Carers Strategy
Telecare will play a major role in ensuring that the 5.2m carers in England and Wales get to have a life of their own, according to the government’s newly-published Carers Strategy. The strategy sets out a ten-year programme to improve the lives of carers and has been backed by £255m of investment to expand short […]
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System user groups launch GP choice campaign
Five GP system national user groups have launched a campaign to support GPs’ right to IT system choice. The five national groups, covering the systems supplied by EMIS, InPS, iSoft, Microtest and Healthy Software, have set up a website to promote their campaign and are writing to every GP practice in England as well as […]
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CfH appoints two new GP clinical leads
Connecting for Health has appointed two new GP national clinical leads – former EMIS national user group chair Dr Manpreet Pujara and former NPfIT clinical lead for Derby City and County, Dr Peter Short. The GPs will replace Professor Mike Pringle and Dr Gillian Braunold. Their role is to involve GPs directly in developing the benefits […]
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2008: the year telecare grows up?
A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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Concern over use of post for patient records
Two PCTs send GP patient records in the regular post when patients move practice if the patients live just outside the areas it covers, EHI Primary Care has learnt. A GP practice in Kent alerted EHI Primary Care to the delivery process because it was concerned about the risk of losing records and the threat […]
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£12m awarded to three home telecare sites
Teams in Kent, Newham and Cornwall have been awarded £12m to look at how best home telecare can be implemented. The areas will form the Whole System Demonstrator pilots promised by the white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, and will be the biggest ever pilot of telecare and telehealth in the UK , […]
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Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts
The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his campaign to be the next leader of the Labour Party. Brown, the favourite to win the leadership contest, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday that there needed to be “more electronic prescriptions so […]
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GPs say N3 slow speeds limiting use of systems
GPs are reporting more problems with N3 connections and system speeds which they say are affecting their ability to run both Connecting for Health applications and local surgery systems. The problems appear to be particularly acute for practices with branch surgeries. In Kent Dr Stephen Meech’s Maidstone practice has a 1MB connection which he has […]
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