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3 June 2005

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

27 April 2005

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

29 March 2005

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

24 February 2005

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

22 February 2005

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

30 December 2004

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

15 July 2003

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

24 June 2003

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

24 April 2003

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

13 March 2003

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

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