Mental Health

Archive
2 September 2005

Illegal online pharmacies ‘threat to public health’

A paper published by think-tank the Centre for Reform has warned of the dangers of unregulated online pharmacies and is
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3 August 2005

Revised NCRS proposals allow for multiple summaries

The concept of a single summary record on the spine is to be replaced by a system that will allow
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21 July 2005

Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’

The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used
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19 July 2005

Red rose rising

EHI Primary Care talks to Lancashire Care NHS Trust, the first mental health trust in England to receive a PAS
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6 July 2005

National record content outlined by CfH

Information on mental health, sexual health and infections should be excluded from the initial summary record on the spine, Connecting
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5 July 2005

Fingerprint health record access wins £3,000 prize

  A group of GP practices, which enable patients to access their records using biometrics and view health information and book
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27 June 2005

Patients need reminders for online depression self-help

  Websites that only offer self-help for people suffering from depression can be effective as those that also offer external clinical
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14 June 2005

Solving the maze

Gerry Yantis and Nikolai Segora from Capgemini argue for greater integration between IT programmes in primary care.
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23 May 2005

Minister launches patient ‘guarantee’ on records

The government has published a series of commitments in the form of a guarantee on how nationally held electronic health
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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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