NHS Choices £80m contract award imminent
The Department of Health is this week expected to announce the winner of the three-year, £80m contract to run NHS Choices, the patient portal for health service. Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, said at a news conference last Thursday, 10 July, that an announcement of the NHS Choices contract was “due […]
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NHS Choices publishes long term conditions guides
A series of online NHS health guides for people with long term conditions has been launched on the NHS Choices website. The guides take patients from symptoms to diagnosis to living with and self-managing their condition. Over the next year, NHS Choices will be rolling out more guides to cover the 60 most common long […]
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Heart surgery survival data published
The NHS has published data for trusts across the country on the survival rates of four different conditions. The data is published today on NHS Choices and is intended to help patients make informed choices about where they get treatnment. The data for the four common cardiac operations for each trust in England comes from […]
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NHS informatics review set to stress continuity
As part of the next stage review of the health service will see the publication of the blueprint for NHS informatics, to accompany last week’s ten year blueprint for the health service ‘High Quality Care for All: The NHS Next Stage Review’. The accompanying informatics review matters as the Darzi direction of travel is all […]
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Darzi’s report for the digital generation
The final report of the Next Stage Review of the English NHS sees technology-driven change as one of the challenges facing the NHS in the 21st century.
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Access to NHS care records may be widened
The Department of Health is to review extending access to the NHS Care Records Service to non-NHS staff, and bodies including private sector organisations.
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NHS Choices gets central role in future health
The DH’s flagship website has been given a central role in Lord Darzi’s plans for reforming the health service in England.
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Darzi review stresses choice and information
Greater choice, better information and a legal duty for strategic health authorities to promote innovation are key themes of the government’s NHS next stage review.
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Less than one in twenty patients use NHS Choices
A total of 4% of patients used the NHS Choices website as a source of information to choose their hospital according to the latest Department of Health survey. The 11th National Patient Choice Survey, conducted in January this year by IPSOS Mori, found that GPs were the most popular source of information on choice of […]
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Connecting for Health to take over NHS Choices
NHS Connecting for Health is to take over responsibility for the NHS Choices portal, the government’s national patient portal for delivering patient choice and health information services. Following the transfer, NHS Choices will become the point of access for HealthSpace, the online organiser used to give people access to their NHS Summary Care Record. It […]
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