NHS Choices to publish death rates
The Department of Health (DH) is to publish death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS hospitals in England, on the NHS Choices website from later this summer. The aim of the move is to provide patients with information on the mortality rates of NHS trusts carrying out major surgical procedures such as hip […]
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E-health 2.0: health’s consumer revolution
E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.
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NHS Direct Online to be moved to Choices
Parts of NHS Direct Online, the highly successful and popular web-based patient advice and information service, look set to be transferred to rival NHS Choices. The planned move is not thought to impact NHS Direct’s core nurse-led national telephone advice service, which handles over 8 million calls a year. NHS Choices, the patient information portal run […]
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NHS Choices publishes 18-week wait data
The Department of Health is making 18-week referral to treatment times available to patients on the NHS Choices website. Patients can use the DH’s flagship website to see the percentage of admitted patients treated within 18 weeks from referral, and the number of weeks from which half of admitted patients started treatment from their referral. […]
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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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DH publishes Cornish 60-year health history
The Department of Health has published a new study looking at the health history of a class of Cornish school children from 60 years ago to the present day on the NHS Choices website. It was commissioned as a way of commemorating the 60th anniversary of the NHS. Visitors to the multi-media web feature can […]
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Libraries encouraged to offer Choose and Book
More than 3000 libraries across England are being encouraged to help patients use NHS Choices and Choose and Book to book their hospital appointment. Last year former health secretary Patricia Hewitt launched a six month library pilot Partnership for Patients which enabled librarians from 30 libraries in 10 areas support people using Choose and Book. […]
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Map of Medicine sold to Hearst Corporation
Map of Medicine, the provider of web-based patient pathways tool developed from an NHS-funded research project and widely installed across the health service, has been bought from Informa by the Hearst Corporation for an undisclosed sum. Map of Medicine offers clinical information simply displayed online as 392 graphic patient pathways. It has been adopted as […]
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Using IT to deliver on free choice
Free choice at referral takes effect this month. Fiona Barr looks at how IT will be used to deliver this flagship policy.
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QoF cash for quitters
GPs could be paid depending on the number of their patients who stop smoking as part of possible changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF), according to the head of primary care commissioning for the Department of Health. Mark Britnell, DH director general of commissioning and system management, outlined a range of possible changes […]
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