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7 July 2020

Private practice doctors offer e-prescribing through CloudRx

The switch enabled private practices to switch to virtual consultation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of practice have made the
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6 July 2020

NHS launches online recovery service for Covid-19 patients

An online recovery service for those who are suffering from long-term effects of coronavirus has been launched by the NHS.
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6 July 2020

Royal Marsden partners with IBM to deliver first ever virtual assistant

Virtual assistant Ask Maisie will provide staff immediate access to Covid-19 HR related information and policies, as well as updates
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6 July 2020

Doctorlink now available to patients in Lancashire and South Cumbria

The symptom assessment tool enables doctors in the region to offer online consultations in a bid to provide immediate and
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3 July 2020

Electronic document management system helps Royal Marsden become truly paper-free

After making a complex rapid access clinic entirely paper-free, leaders at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust are now exploring
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3 July 2020

Social prescribing ‘should be added to GP IT systems to go green’

Social prescribing could lead to better health outcomes and more environmentally aware patients, according to the British Medical Association.
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3 July 2020

Greater use of health technology ‘could save 20,000 lives a year’

Think tank the Institute of Public Policy found the NHS could save £10 billion from reduced costs related to health
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3 July 2020

Movers and Shakers news roundup

July's roundup of movements and appointments includes a new interim CIO at Great Ormond Street and a new CEO at
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2 July 2020

Londoners have their say on how their health data is used

Londoners have given national and local health leaders a mandate for how they expect their data to be used as
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
2 July 2020

Experts react to government’s U-turn on contact-tracing app

Industry leaders said the government should ensure ethics and privacy are “correct by design” in its new contact-tracing app.
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