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15 March 2006

Asthma phone reviews won’t count for QOF

Telephone reviews for patients with asthma cannot count towards Quality and Outcome Framework targets, national arbitrators have ruled. The national
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23 February 2006

Cornwall NHS staff get VoIP phone badges

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has issued its staff with voice-activated handsfree ‘badges’, worn around the neck on a lanyard,
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16 February 2006

ECGs by phone for GPs in the north west

GPs in Lancashire and Cumbria SHA have started using a telephone-based clinical monitoring service, using small devices that take ECGs
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19 January 2006

Ofcom calls for review of hospital phone charges

A review group is to be set up to look at hospital bedside telephone and entertainment services and see whether
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5 January 2006

Bedside phone enquiry likely to raise wider issues

The chief executive of hospital bedside telephone and television supplier, Patientline, has predicted that a regulatory investigation into its business
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9 December 2005

Asthma reviews by phone don’t count for QoF, say PCTs

National arbitrators for the GP contract are to rule on whether telephone reviews for patients with asthma can count towards
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27 October 2005

Preventing errors in phone consultations

A reminder to doctors to beware of the pitfalls of using the telephone to communicate with patients has come from
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11 October 2005

Mobile phone transmits your ECG

Engineers at Loughborough University have devised a mobile phone that easily receive, collate and send a person’s ECG and other vital signs
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27 July 2005

Ofcom investigates patient phone systems

Patientline has said it will suspend new installations in hospitals pending the outcome of an Ofcom inquiry into complaints about
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8 June 2005

Wireless LAN phone can survive hospital environment

A US-based company has developed a ‘rugged’ wireless phone specifically for the UK wireless healthcare market that can survive being
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