Out of Hours

Archive
15 May 2007

Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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20 April 2007

Northern Doctors Urgent Care deploys new OOH system

Over 1.2 million patients in Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and South Tyneside should benefit from better out of
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2 April 2007

Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England

The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP
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29 March 2007

Patient outreach solution launched for LTCs

A new system designed to help the management of long term conditions (LTCs) has been launched by Clinical Solutions. The system
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16 March 2007

OOH performance measurement poor, says report

Many primary care trusts are unable to measure their performance on out-of-hours care, partly because providers do not have the
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15 March 2007

Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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9 February 2007

Patients can carry records on secure smartcard

Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB
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8 February 2007

BMA calls for better OOH information for patients

The BMA has criticised the NHS Direct service for failing to point patients in the right direction for when they
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8 January 2007

Out of hours record systems review ordered by DH

The Department of Health (DH) has instructed all primary care trusts (PCTs) to review the use of paper-based systems by
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3 January 2007

Practices encouraged to use new 03 numbers

GP practices are to be encouraged to adopt a new 03 telephone number or use a local geographic number for
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