Record year for Doctors.net.uk
Medical website Doctors.net.uk has announced a record year, with 25m unique web visits in 2009. The website, which offers a forum for doctors plus an email service and interactive learning modules, said it registered two surges in activity during the year in its discussion fora. These coincided with the outbreak of swine flu in April 2009, […]
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Hewitt launches ‘Choose and Book’ librarians
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has launched ten ‘choice’ library pilots. Librarians in the pilots will be trained to help people find and make sense of information about different healthcare providers and "choose and book" their hospital appointment. A DH spokesperson told EHI that the librarians would help people better understand the choices available to them, but would […]
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Early adopters sought for Health Direct service
The Department of Health (DH) and NHS Direct are looking for primary care trusts interested in being the early adopter site for NHS Health Direct, the DH’s new multi-media health advice service. The government’s 2004 white paper on public health, Choosing Health, set out the intention to establish Health Direct and the DH now plans […]
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DH focuses on ‘self care’ through IT services
The DH have announced the release of a guidance document for supporting self-care of long-term conditions, such as diabetes, that include use of e-mail and SMS to ease pressure on GPs and A&E departments by up to 50%. ‘Self Care – A Real Choice’ represents a recognition by the DH that initiatives such as multi-media […]
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Evening classes for electronic records?
Adult education courses to explain what the new electronic patient care record does and how it can be used in planning personal health choices are advocated in the government’s new white paper on public health. Buried beneath the headlines about smoking bans and combating obesity, the white paper, Choosing Health, says that as part of the drive […]
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