NHS 111

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17 March 2020

Sick notes to be automated through NHS 111 to prevent Covid-19 spread

People will be able to provide a note to their employer without having face-to-face contact with GP services, reducing the
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9 March 2020

COVID-19: More than one million access NHS 111 support for coronavirus

More than one million people have used a dedicated NHS online support service for coronavirus since it was launched on
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22 August 2019

Dr Google ‘diagnoses’ 100m health concerns as GP wait times rise

More people are turning to Google to self-diagnose their boo-boos and ailments, with Londoners proving the biggest 'cyberchondriacs'.
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16 May 2019

NHS 111 online hits one million triage since 2017 launch

Data from NHS Digital revealed the most common symptoms for which people use NHS 111 online are related to abdominal
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19 April 2018

Is NHS 111 a waste of time?

Our GP columnist looks at few instances where his acquaintancesĀ or patients had to deal with NHS 111 and wonders if
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22 January 2018

Part 2: Can tech help in averting next winter crisis?

In this second article of two-part series, Shreshtha Trivedi looks at how primary care and urgent care sector are using
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13 September 2017

Hunt says technology will create “patient power decade” in NHS

Jeremy Hunt used his keynote speech at the Health and Care Innnovation Expo to announce a series of new promises
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11 September 2017

Hunt to promise every NHS patient app access to records

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says every patient in England will be able to use an app to access their medical
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5 January 2017

Babylon Health to power NHS 111 with ‘AI triage’ bot

An a chatbot app will field less serious health complaints from 1.2 million NHS patients in North Central London as
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19 October 2016

Doctors beat algorithms on diagnosis – study

Doctors ā€œvastly outperformedā€ computer algorithms when it comes to giving a correct , according to an American research trial.
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