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RSS NHSNHS helpline gets £35m cash boost
News The UK's National Health Service is to plough a further £35m into NHS Direct, its 24 hour helpline. The helpline gives patients information on how health problems should be tackled, and directs them to the right part of... [05 Aug 1998]
Doctors get electronic appointment system
News The money is part of the £500m for the NHS announced in the Chancellor's 17 March budget. Health Minister Baroness Jay announced a £5m pilot project this week that will let GPs set hospital appointments directly from... [22 Jul 1998]
IT infrastructure gets low billing from UK government
News Investing in the IT infrastructure of the UK health service is not a priority, despite the cash boost of £21bn the NHS received last week. Stephen Thornton, CEO of the NHS Confederation, told Silicon... [17 Jul 1998]
Cool BMA response to health service cash boost
News The British Medical Association has reacted with scepticism to Chancellor Gordon Brown's £21m award to the NHS as part of Tuesday's comprehensive spending review. Dr Grant Kelly, chairman of the BMA's GP Information... [16 Jul 1998]
Health managers could waste telemedicine money
News The UK Prime Minster's recent pledge to fund IT innovation in the NHS has met with criticism from top health body, the Institute of Health Services Management. The announcements - including the launch of a £14m nursing... [15 Jul 1998]
In brief: Telemedicine centre shows healthcare future
News The telco claims the technology could reduce NHS waiting lists and costs. Welsh Office Minister, Win Griffiths, was present at the launch as part of the NHS's 50th anniversary celebrations. The... [08 Jul 1998]
In brief: Sinclair Montrose gears up for NHS business
News Sinclair Montrose, a health services provider, is ready to tender for NHS contracts with the acquisition of the ASA Locums agency. Sinclair Montrose, which already offers nurses, doctors and operating theatre staff via... [06 Jul 1998]
Blair stresses value of NHS performance checks
News Speaking at the NHS 50th anniversary celebrations, Tony Blair talked of the "scandal of Bristol", when 27 children died during heart surgery, as "an unforgivable failure to act on the signs of poor performance". [03 Jul 1998]
Europe's first cardiac call centre opens
News Darren Taylor, Clinical Services Manager at Lifesign, said that the system is far cheaper than the current NHS option. Around 1,600 GPs have signed up to Lifesign, Europe's first cardiac call centre, based in South Wales. [03 Jul 1998]
Health expert warns against cutting IT costs
News Ross Langford, a spokesman for the NHS Executive, acknowledged Maynard's comments but said that IT is just one in a long list of requirements in the health service crying out for funding. A leading health economist has... [01 Jul 1998]
Pre-Millennium tension afflicts the NHS
Comment The latest official report on the state of the UK National Health Service's (NHS) Year 2000 programme is called 'A Stitch in Time'. The Audit Commissions' report on the NHS's laxidasical approach to the... [26 Jun 1998]
