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13 December 2005

Training on the go

Dr Neil Bacon, founder of Doctors.net.uk, on the benefits of online training and how a programme funded by the HPA
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13 December 2005

National children’s database gets go-ahead

The government has given the go-ahead for the creation of an electronic information sharing index containing information on all children
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13 December 2005

Choose and Book passes 50,000 mark

More than 6,000 appointments a week are now being made through Choose and Book with the total number of bookings
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9 December 2005

Asthma reviews by phone don’t count for QoF, say PCTs

National arbitrators for the GP contract are to rule on whether telephone reviews for patients with asthma can count towards
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9 December 2005

Database aims to improve mental healthcare of young

The First Episode of psychosis Research Network (FERN) has awarded a contract to Tribal Technology for development of a mental
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8 December 2005

IT support key to NHS innovation and reform

IT support for staff and patients is recognised in the NHS chief executive’s latest report as a key element of
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8 December 2005

In the vault

E-Health Insider talks to Gwyn Thomas, director of Welsh healthcare IT programme Informing Healthcare, about how his emphasis is on
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8 December 2005

N3 connections needed say community pharmacists

Lack of access to smartcards and the N3 network by community pharmacists is jeopardising the roll out of the electronic
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7 December 2005

Phone monitoring can reduces anxiety symptoms

A study in the US has found that patients with anxiety and panic disorders who are monitored, supported and given
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6 December 2005

Paper sole option for patients opting out of CRS

Patients who wish to opt out of having their information recorded on the NHS Care Records Service will only be
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