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8 January 2009

NHS Direct takes 250,000 festive calls

NHS Direct received more than a quarter of a million calls over the Christmas and New Year break, an increase
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6 January 2009

NHS 24 takes call every two seconds

Scottish health helpline NHS 24 received one telephone call every two seconds at the height of demand for its service
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20 October 2008

Paramedic students trained using Second Life

The ‘collapsed clubber’ is one of five   scenarios students can expect to encounter   in the Second Life training
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26 September 2008

Data exchange needed for urgent care

Urgent and emergency care providers in England must share more data electronically if they are to improve services, the Healthcare
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7 August 2008

NHS Connecting for Health backs Healthcare Interoperability showcase

NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for England’s IT modernisation programme, is sponsoring the Best Practice Showcase at E-Health-Insider’s
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6 August 2008

Italian WiMAX ambulance project launched

A new ambulance communications system is using high speed, long distance WiMAX wireless connections to enable doctors to diagnose and
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21 July 2008

Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals

University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a
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16 July 2008

South Central chooses McKesson for HR support

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust has selected McKesson Shared Services to support its HR and payroll functions. The deal
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2 July 2008

NHS manager suspended after losing laptop

A senior hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop computer containing the unencrypted records of over 20,000 patients was
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20 June 2008

Call for new urgent care phone number

The Ambulance Service Network (ASN) has called for a new national telephone number for urgent non-life threatening calls, which would
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