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Confed wants e-mental health strategy

The Department of Health and NHS England should create a national strategy for e-mental health and invest in a national
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Mind the gap

This year’s NHS Confederation conference heard about a bright, tech-enabled future. But will it arrive in time to save the
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Hunt’s pet project – Skyping GPs

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has urged the NHS to “put its head above the parapet” and make more creative use
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Don’t be gun shy of IT – Stevens

Simon Stevens has told the NHS not to be "gun shy" of technology after its experience with the National Programme
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NHS data ‘useful but hard to collect’

Clinicians think that two thirds of data collections in the NHS are useful and relevant to patient care, but a
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Bureaucracy busters set to work on NHS

A bureaucracy busting campaign is being launched to reduce the burden of data collection for the NHS.
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Nicholson wants big conversation on NHS

NHS England is to lead on the creation of a strategy for the health service that will try to build
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Info revolution to transform NHS

The promised ‘NHS information revolution’ could be the biggest driver for change in the health service, NHS Confederation chief executive
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NHS managers reject Ofsted ratings

NHS managers have rejected the idea of ‘Ofsted-style ratings’ for hospitals – one of the government’s big planned responses to
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EHI interview: Mike Farrar

The chief executive of the NHS Confederation wants the NHS to get to grips with IT and information; fast. He
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