DNAs

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5 July 2007

Training Day DNAs

While the NHS strives hard to cut its DNA - 'did not attend' - rates for patients attending hospital and
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23 May 2007

Choose and Book gets upgraded

Atos Origin has announced that it has implemented the latest in a series of upgrades to the national NHS electronic
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19 December 2005

SMS appointment reminders get language boost

A GP practice in south London which is using text messaging to send out appointment reminders to its patients will soon
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3 November 2005

Ealing and Southend-on-Sea start patient txt messaging

Mobile messaging firm iPlato  has announced that practices from two more primary care trusts in England have started using its
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19 May 2005

Choose and Book may get mobile txt reminders

Plans are being drawn up to introduce a national automatic appointment reminder service to cut missed appointments by patients, a
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7 April 2005

Unreliable patients most likely to ask for SMS reminders

Patients most likely to be ‘Did Not Attends’ (DNAs) at outpatient clinics are also the most likely to sign up for text
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13 September 2004

McKesson launches text appointment reminder service

McKesson, one of the largest existing suppliers of hospital patient administration systems, has a launched an automated text message reminder
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17 June 2004

Blair: Choose and Book historic development

Tony Blair has defended the development of the NHS’s Choose and Book programme, the new name for the new NHS
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