Out of Hours

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3 June 2005

Lack of leadership at NHS 24 leads to shake up

Lack of leadership and problems with responding to peak demand have been identified as key issues dogging the Scottish healthcare helpline, NHS
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27 April 2005

Crunch time

How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to
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29 March 2005

Emergency care summary set to rollout in Scotland

A project which allows out-of-hours services access to an emergency care summary of patients’ GP records is likely to be
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24 February 2005

National rate NHS phone numbers to be banned by April

The Department of Health has today confirmed that they will prevent GPs, local surgeries and dentists from using national (0870
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22 February 2005

Patients use GePmail for self-monitoring

Patients have begun to use a secure internet link to submit their blood pressure and blood sugar results to GPs
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30 December 2004

Record hits for NHS Direct Online over Christmas break

The DH have announced a 30% increase on hits to the NHS Direct website over the Christmas period, the busiest since
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15 July 2003

E-prescribing Arrives for Out-of-Hours GPs

A major step towards electronic prescribing for out-of-hours (OOH) doctors in England has been taken with the launch of new
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24 June 2003

Open Source: PCTs Must Continue to Offer Choice of Systems

In the new slot for opinion and comment Dr Nilesh Jain of Torex Health takes up the question of GPs
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24 April 2003

New Forum to Support Interoperability Standards

A new Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF) has been set up to actively support the design of interoperability standards covering
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13 March 2003

Medical Records Found on Memory Stick

An incident in which a Cheshire estate agent found a memory stick she had bought contained confidential clinical records has
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