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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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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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Trust sets up employee benefit website

Westminister PCT has launched ‘It’s All About You’, a website for staff personalised to show employee benefits, holiday and pension
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UCLH streamlines voice traffic management

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH) has installed an advanced communications infrastructure that will control most of the 1.2
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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS

Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient
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South London and Maudsley goes live with JAC

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has gone live across the trust with a new pharmacy management system from JAC
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NHS Direct proposes online social care wiki

NHS Direct could soon be setting up an online social care ‘wiki’ that would allow patients to learn from one
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Granger answers Choose and Book critics

NHS IT chief, Richard Granger, says that low usage of the Choose and Book system is not something he can
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Parliament told of GPs’ scepticism over C+B

GPs are slowly becoming more knowledgeable about Choose and Book and its implications while gradually becoming more negative about it,
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Online infection control site unveiled by UCLH

An online directory of infectious diseases has been unveiled by University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Whittington and North Middlesex Hospitals
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