Choice Archives

1 August 2008

Efforts to harness health informatics to improve patient care have been "impeded" by a basic lack of commitment from NHS

24 July 2008

NHS Direct’s Evelina Children’s Hospital information prescription pilot project has been awarded the 2008 Ask About Medicines Award for ‘Excellence

23 July 2008

The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent

22 July 2008

GP practices in England that have signed up for the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative are being encouraged to

22 July 2008

The Summary Care Record (SCR) could be used to share end of life care plans and resuscitation details, according to

21 July 2008

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) is to be overhauled to focus on indicators which have the greatest impact on

21 July 2008

The ‘Choozomatic’ – a patient voice-activated, touch screen device that is wirelessly linked to wristbands telling doctors and nurses who

17 July 2008

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs,

17 July 2008

Nearly nine in ten patients are satisfied with their ability to get through to their GP practice on the telephone,

16 July 2008

Capita has been announced as the preferred bidder to deliver NHS Choices for the next three years.

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