SMS

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13 February 2008

NHS Direct launches SMS service

NHS Direct has launched a new text messaging service that allows users to obtain details of local health facilities. Anyone
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29 October 2007

NHSmail promotes free SMS for reminders

NHSmail users are being encouraged to use the system’s free text messaging to remind patients about healthcare appointments. Contractors, Cable & Wireless’
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26 October 2007

EHI’s industry news round-up 26.10.07

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 26 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, acquisitions and events.
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10 September 2007

Lewisham cuts missed appointments with SMS

Lewisham PCT has reduced the number of missed appointments in 16 practices by 27% by using text message appointment reminders
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16 July 2007

iPlato deploy SMS to Hammersmith and Fulham PCT

Health text messaging specialists iPlato have agreed a deal to provide their patient care messaging service to 26 doctors’ surgeries
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10 July 2007

Safety technology needed to protect nurses, says RCN

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is calling for the NHS to fund mobile devices to enable community nurses working alone
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22 May 2007

Careful and cautious progress on Electronic Prescriptions

Tim Donohoe, the head of the NHS Electronic Prescriptions Service programme, tells Fiona Barr why progress will remain 'careful and
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3 May 2007

TPP develops text messaging service

Primary care and community healthcare IT providers, TPP, have introduced text messaging to work alongside their flagship SystmOne solution. The solution has
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11 April 2007

Voicemails prompt patients to pick up medicine

A message system that enables pharmacists to leave an automatically-generated voicemail for patients whose prescriptions are ready for collection is to be offered
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8 March 2007

Islington PCT uses texts for stop smoking campaign

GP surgeries in Islington, London, are using SMS text messaging software from suppliers iPlato to promote its smoking cessation campaigns.
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