Emergency admissions

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24 May 2024

This is a great time for virtual wards to be bolder

New guidance from NHS England, and the positive findings of a large-scale evaluation in the South East, have delivered a
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24 October 2017

System C sites have started to submit data to Emergency Care Data Set

System C’s acute hospital sites have begun to submit data to the new national Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS), which
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27 September 2010

Predictive risk tool for West Midlands

New technology developed by Bupa Health Dialog will be used to help GPs in the West Midlands to predict the
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6 September 2010

NHS Wiltshire buys Tunstall for COPD

Telecare and telehealth technology provider Tunstall has announced that NHS Wiltshire has bought its next generation suite of telehealth solutions.
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28 May 2010

GP plans nursing home access to records

A GP is to explore giving nursing home staff electronic access to patient records in a move he claims could
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24 March 2010

Lower borrowing, more savings in Budget

Chancellor Alistair Darling has confirmed that government borrowing will be lower than predicted in last year’s Pre-Budget Report, while committing
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23 July 2009

NHS IOW cuts costs with ScriptSwitch

NHS Isle of Wight says it has cut its prescribing costs to more than 9% below the national average through the
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23 April 2009

Telecare delivers savings in Scotland

Telecare in Scotland has delivered savings of more than £11m and is improving health and social care delivery and quality
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24 February 2009

Welsh e-referral plans and controversy

Wales is due to launch its own electronic referral system in the summer, with a version of the clinical communications
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20 January 2009

Reducing admissions with telehealth

Helen Rollings, community matron at Swindon PCT, explains the trust’s decision to mainstream its telehealth service.
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