GP’s video encourages patients to access records
A GP has made a video to encourage patients in his practice to access their electronic records over the internet. Dr Amir Hannan, a GP in Hyde, Cheshire, and a pioneer of patient record access, made the video for the waiting room in his surgery but it is also available online on the records access […]
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New Internet Pharmacy Logo unveiled
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has launched a new Internet Pharmacy Logo, designed to be a visual tool to help the public identify if a website is being operated by a bona fide pharmacy in Britain. The move follows research by the society which showed that over 2m people across Britain now […]
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Public favour ‘Full Monty’ on NHS Choices
More than 5000 people have voted ten to one in favour of NHS Choices going for the Full Monty on its body maps
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A work in progress
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr looks back on the developments during 2007 and shape of things to come in 2008.
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PCTs to lead on NHS IMandT development
The NHS operating framework for 2008-2009 says that in the coming year local NHS organisations will be expected to build on the National Programme for IT local ownership programme (NLOP) with PCTs required to “further develop their leadership role”. It states that during the course of the current year “the transfer of resources from central […]
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DH to award £80m contract for NHS Choices
The Department of Health has gone out to tender to find a new supplier to run the NHS Choices patient information website, in a lucrative three year deal initially worth £60-80m. The chosen supplier will be expected to generate in excess of 20m hits to the NHS Choices website, together with generating significant revenue from […]
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Overseas data work under review, say reports
The government is reportedly reviewing whether sensitive information about NHS patients could be sent overseas for processing. A leaked internal NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) document, published by Computer Weekly magazine, reveals a review is under way into whether patient data could be processed by “approved organisations” abroad. The DH said in a statement on […]
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EMIS supplies white label software for pilot
GP system supplier, Emis is supporting a key part of Wales’ Informing Healthcare programme by providing the company’s software on a ‘white label’ basis for the first time. My Health Online – the new health website for Wales – is using software designed by Emis to facilitate the trial of new patient services such as […]
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NHS Choices in offensive passwords blunder
More than 200 GP practices were sent offensive passwords for the Department of Health’s flagship website NHS Choices last week, five days before the second release of the site was due to be launched. The error, which happened on November 14, was quickly identified and within two hours the NHS Choices team had contacted all […]
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Health secretary’s website wins access award
Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who is also Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle, won the award for his personal website www.alanjohnson.org, used to communicate news to his constituents. The website is run for the health secretary by […]
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