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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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9 January 2007

Reports highlight telecare’s popularity

Research studies on the two biggest telecare projects in the UK have highlighted the popularity of the technology among users.
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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

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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15 December 2006

Telecare deal for 500 packages in Cumbria

Five hundred homes across Cumbria are to receive telecare packages following a contract award to suppliers, Tunstall,  by the local county
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4 December 2006

Information Centre to centralise social care records

The Information Centre is working towards producing a new information system for adult social care records, called the Adult Social
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3 November 2006

Large scale telecare pilot details published

The Department of Health has identified its target groups and released more information for prospective participants about its telecare pilot
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27 September 2006

Patients cannot remember C+B referral options

A total of 80% of patients in Selby and York Primary Care Trust claimed they were not offered a choice
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19 September 2006

Tower Hamlets goes live with e-SAP

Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has become the first London trust to implement new electronic Single Assessment Process (e-SAP) software,
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29 August 2006

Road to repair

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, US correspondent Neil Versel reports from Louisiana on the use of EHRs in rebuilding
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