Exchange set up to improve ICS
Frustration with the Integrated Children’s System has led to the creation of an online forum focussed on redesigning it.
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Tunstall is Just Checking
Tunstall has added a web-based activity monitoring system from Just Checking to its portfolio of telehealthcare solutions.
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Telecare essential to ‘re-enablement’
The government has highlighted the importance of using telehealth to help reform social care and provide more control to individuals and their carers.
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Osborne tells NHS to support social care
The NHS will be expected to support social care as council budgets are slashed, Chancellor George Osborne announced this lunchtime.
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Info revolution to back IT staff
The consultation on a new NHS information strategy calls for IT and informatics staff to be given greater status and better skills.
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Revolting people
Lyn Whitfield takes a first look at the consultation on a new information strategy for the NHS; which the government wants to bring about an ‘information revolution’.
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NIGB burns in bonfire of the quangos
A body set up to improve the way in which confidential patient data is handled has been scrapped by the government as part of its ‘bonfire of the quangos’.
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EHI industry round-up: extra
This ‘extra’ edition of eHealth Insider’s popular industry round up covers a well-known NHS IT director’s move to Kainos, a remarkable long service award, contract wins and company news. Brendan Major takes job at Kainos Kainos has announced that it has appointed Brendan Major to work on the development of its Evolve electronic document management system […]
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‘Save expertise’: NHS Confederation
Urgent action is needed to retain good staff working for primary care trusts and to preserve organisational memory as the latest set of NHS reforms are worked through, the NHS Confederation has told the government.
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King’s Fund calls for brake on reforms
The case for reorganising the NHS in England has not been made and health ministers should reconsider the speed and scale of their proposed reforms, the King’s Fund has said. In its response to the Department of Health consultation on the white paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, the health charity has questioned the […]
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