SmokingPackYears.com now multi-lingual
A UK GP has created a multi-language version of his website which offers a smoking pack years calculator for clinicians and patients. Dr Nigel Masters, a GP in Buckinghamshire, said his Smoking Pack Years site receives 6,000 visitors a month from more than 60 countries worldwide. He hopes to extend its use further by offering […]
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CfH gives go-ahead for IE7
NHS Connecting for Health has said organisations still using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 should move to IE7, following security concerns about the older browser. The Department of Health signed a national licensing deal with Microsoft in October 2001 that lead to the majority of NHS trusts using IE 6 for internet and intranet access. In […]
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NHS 24 has busiest Christmas
Scotland’s national health helpline NHS 24 handled more than 78,000 calls from people over the Christmas and New Year break, an increase of around 1,100 from the same time last year. The helpline said its staff at NHS24 centres around Scotland took 74,160 calls from the public and 3,858 calls were also handled by the […]
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NHS Direct and Digital Public were winners at the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT. Paul Curran reports.
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Sites link up for mental health ratings
The patient feedback site Patient Opinion has linked up with NHS Choices to enable patients to comment online on mental health services. The partnership between the Department of Health’s flagship website and Patient Opinion is due to be launched today by care services minister Phil Hope. The DH said the partnership means service users, carers […]
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£1.7m for My Health Online
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced it will invest £1.7m in a bilingual website that will enable patients to book GP appointments and order repeat prescriptions online. Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, says it is developing a “bespoke NHS Wales website” with GP system suppliers, which will allow patients to interact with GPs […]
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NHS Direct launches self-assessment tool
NHS Direct has launched an online self-assessment tool that it hopes will reduce demand on its telephone service over the winter months. The health helpline said the initial assessment tool would enable patients to bypass an initial telephone assessment and instead go on to the NHS Direct website to assess their symptoms and get advice. EHI […]
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