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Tinder to train patients online

25 September 2013 3:43 PM

The Tinder Foundation has won a £1m contract to train 50,000 people to use online health services over the next six months.

Digital care plans by 2015

25 September 2013 12:41 PM

Everyone with a long-term condition or disability must have a digital personalised care plan accessible online or via a mobile phone app by 2015, under a package of measures launched today by NHS England.

Tameside Lorenzo go-live next month

25 September 2013 9:41 AM

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be the first to go-live with Lorenzo under an interim deal between CSC and the Department of Health, next month.

GP appointments auto-cancelled via text

25 September 2013 12:00 AM

GP practices are using new iPlato functionality to allow patients to automatically cancel GP appointments via their mobile phone.

Trusts get RiO upgrade

25 September 2013 12:00 AM

BT is upgrading community and mental health organisations in London and the south of England to Release 2 of electronic patient record system RiO.

Jr doctor creates ward problems app

24 September 2013 12:00 AM

A junior doctor at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has created an app to flag up problems and inefficiencies on the wards.

Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.

Care.data publicity ‘not adequate’ – GPC

24 September 2013 12:00 AM

The practice-based publicity campaign around care.data is “not adequate” and wider awareness raising activities will take place before extractions begin, the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee says.