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18 November 2008

BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists

All the finalists in this year’s awards, along with a description of their projects.
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18 November 2008

BT e-Health Insider Awards: the winners

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust emerged as the overall winner of the BT e-Health Insider awards at the Millennium
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17 November 2008

Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices

Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the
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10 November 2008

Patients’ prospectus launched on NHS Choices

The Department of Health has published its promised patients' prospectus, setting out the support that people living with long term
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4 November 2008

NHS Direct drops foundation plans

NHS Direct has announced that it will not apply for foundation trust status “in the foreseeable future.” Its chief executive,
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24 October 2008

DH wants ISO equivalent for health information

The Department of Health is tendering for an organisation to run a scheme to accredit health and social care information
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25 September 2008

Keogh outlines priorities for new head of IT

NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has stepped down as the Department of Health’s interim director general for informatics and
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5 September 2008

Patient’s awareness of treatment choices stalls

The latest national patient choice survey shows little growth in awareness of the government’s flagship policy on choice with less
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25 August 2008

Information prescriptions to be linked to electronic records

The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to
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12 August 2008

How the web threatens GP reputations

Lawyer Magnus Boyd argues that ratings websites can destroy doctors’ reputations in the time it takes to send an e-mail.
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