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No boundaries plan needs shared records

The abolition of GP practice boundaries will increase the importance of shared medical records, according to the Department of Health.
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Forest for the cup

The NHS Waltham Forest team implementing RiO was the overall winner in last year’s E-Health Insider Awards in association with
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Lamb sets out ideas for NHS and IT

Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has called for NHS Connecting for Health to be scrapped, the Care Records
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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
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DH issues guide to ‘correct’ use of C+B

Hospitals, primary care trusts and GP practices are being urged to reconsider workarounds for Choose and Book in favour of
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CfH to crack down on C&B ‘misuse’

NHS Connecting for Heath is hoping to crack down on the misuse of Choose and Book through new guidance that
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Survey calls for IT to help deaf

More than half of deaf and hearing impaired patients regularly face difficulties communicating with their GP surgery and would like
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DH promotes C+B to beat strike

The Department of Health is encouraging GPs and hospitals to use NHS Choose and Book and secure text messaging to manage
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PDS access requires ‘business reason’

Staff accessing the Personal Demographics Service must have an appropriate ‘business reason’ for doing so, but need not have a
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Access code

Dr Maureen Baker, Caldicott Guardian for NHS Connecting for Health, outlines new guidance on the use of the Personal Demographics
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