Choice

Archive
16 January 2007

Minister announces new telecare guidance on way

  The government is to issue new guidance for social care commissioners to help make telecare more mainstream, it was
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16 January 2007

Choice surveys to be given to referred patients

GPs taking part in the choice and booking incentive scheme are expected to hand out surveys from the beginning of
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9 January 2007

NHS 24 to take non-emergency 999 calls

Scottish patients who call 999 for an ambulance may end up being called back by staff from the information and
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8 January 2007

ScriptSwitch helps PCTs meet statin targets

Prescribing software can help to remind GPs to opt for cheaper generic drugs when they treat patients with high cholesterol,
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5 January 2007

Computers – the greatest medical breakthrough?

Computers have been shortlisted in a British Medical Journal poll to determine the greatest medical breakthrough since 1840. They are one
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3 January 2007

Nuffield Hospitals begin rollout of direct Choose and Book

The Nuffield Hospitals group have gone live with the directly bookable NHS Choose and Book system at its site in
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21 December 2006

2006 – a curate’s egg for Connecting for Health

E-Health Insider cuts through the statistics to offer a snapshot of progress on ongoing efforts to digitise the NHS in
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20 December 2006

Rewiring Long Term Care

As major work starts on 'demonstrators' for e-enabled long term care, Colin Jervis analyses the challenge.
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18 December 2006

East Surrey goes live with new maternity system

East Surrey Hospital has gone live with the first implementation of a new maternity information system called Eclipse MIS. The
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18 December 2006

Survey shows small improvement in patient choice

More patients are remembering being offered choice, according to the latest results of the Department of Health’s National Patient Choice
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