Birmingham and District use virtual waiting room to maintain patient safety
Birmingham and District GP Emergency Room was able to keep patients safe when a cyber attack occurred thanks to Ummanu’s virtual waiting room technology.
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Somerset NHS Foundation Trust moves away from paper and pagers
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a digital task management solution from Infinity Health in a bid to phase out paper and pagers.
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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 digital to respond to winter pressures, what is working and how can we accelerate the transformation agenda for next winter.
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Central Manchester extends GP access
Patients in central Manchester are given extended access to GP practices as part of a data-sharing project.
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SCR uploads and viewings hit record high

Last 111 sites live in February
The last NHS 111 sites are due to go live with the service in February 2014, nearly a year after originally planned.
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Surge in SCR uptake
Uptake of Summary Care Records amongst secondary care clinicians has been greater in the past nine months, than in the previous five years.
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NHS Direct faces uncertain future
Ambulance trusts and GP out-of-hours providers will take over NHS 111 services from NHS Direct by the end of November.
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NHS Direct plunges into red
The on-going crisis in the roll-out of the NHS 111 service has pushed NHS Direct into deficit just one month into the financial year.
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Enter the CCG
Dr John Lockley, a GP and clinical lead for informatics at NHS Bedfordshire CCG, thinks he may have a solution to discharge woes.
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