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Patient Online accelerates

Around 25 accelerator sites and ten digital champions are being recruited as part of NHS England’s Patient Online programme to
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Birmingham develops benchmark tool

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has helped to create an international hospital benchmarking tool to understand variations in healthcare
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Mental health trust opts for Lorenzo

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust will be the first mental health trust to take the Lorenzo electronic patient record
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Game on for patient online

There hasn’t been much news about new, online services for patients recently. But Dr Peter Short from the HSCIC tells
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Another view of Code4Health

GP Neil Paul has time for the much-derided Code4Health project; but thinks a lot more will need to be done
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Barnsley gets Lorenzo green light

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been officially approved to take the Lorenzo electronic patient record system and has appointed
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Morecambe delivers digital letters

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is sending discharge summaries and A&E letters electronically to GPs following a
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RoI evidence needed for tech strategy

NHS England’s IT strategy will focus on telehealth, customer service and integrated digital care records, Beverley Bryant said yesterday; although
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TPP and HSCIC still talking on GPSoC

The Health and Social Care Information Centre and TPP are still in negotiations around the new GP Systems of Choice
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Stevens calls for change on first day

NHS England’s new chief executive, Simon Stevens, has taken up the top job in health service management.
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