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iPlato deploy SMS to Hammersmith and Fulham PCT

Health text messaging specialists iPlato have agreed a deal to provide their patient care messaging service to 26 doctors’ surgeries
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Oxfordshire council uses web-based bed booking

Oxfordshire County Council have started using a new online care bed vacancy database and booking system, using technology from OLM
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Data payments announced for Scottish pharmacists

Community pharmacists in Scotland are to receive payments for ensuring the data quality of their patient records ahead of the
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Choose and Book, 152 PCT stories

In the latest article from the clinicians leading Connecting for Health, Dr Mark Davies the clinical director for Choose and
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Nottingham telehealth pilot underway

Nottingham City Primary Care Trust has begun piloting a new telehealth scheme to help patients with long term conditions monitor
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Junior doctors’ confidential details openly displayed

The Medical Training Application Service website will be the subject of a Department of Health investigation after an undercover reporter
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GP records play key role in most popular paper

A database of anonymised GP records was the source for the most popular research paper of 2005 published by the
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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Privacy GP calls records opt out pledge a ‘decoy’

A GP who has campaigned for patients to secure an opt-out from the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is claiming
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Call to use Spine to find drug trial patients

The BioIndustry Association has expressed an interest in tapping into the NHS’s Spine database and using patient information to identify
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