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18 April 2008

Choose and Book gives some patients wrong information

The Choose and Book system has been hit by a technical problem which has resulted in over 300 patients receiving
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10 April 2008

Swindells quits DH ahead of review publication

The Department of Health’s interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department to take up a position
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28 February 2008

St Helens and Knowsley COIN speeds up comms

Over 7,500 staff working across 160 GP surgeries, health centres and acute hospitals in St Helens and Knowsley, Merseyside, are
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26 February 2008

North Lincs community nurses get mobile

Community nurses in North Lincolnshire are to get wireless rugged laptops in one of the largest deployments yet of mobile
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25 February 2008

The frustrations of GP e-mail

In the first of a new series of columns from a grassroots GP, Dr Neil Paul describes his experiences with
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19 February 2008

PCT uses text messages to tackle obesity

Hammersmith and Fulham PCT has piloted the use of text messaging to calculate patients’ body mass indexes (BMIs) and contact
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30 January 2008

Choose and Book to list private hospitals

The next version of Choose and Book software will list all available hospitals, regardless of whether they are public or
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28 January 2008

Hospitals block appointments with C+B

Hospitals are using Choose and Book to block patients making appointments so they can meet their waiting time targets, according
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18 December 2007

A work in progress

EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr looks back on the developments during 2007 and shape of things to come in
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17 December 2007

Atos Healthcare takes over its first medical centre

Atos Healthcare is to take over its first medical centre in the UK in February 2008. The St Paul’s Way
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