iPLATO Healthcare has announced that an additional 6 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) representing over 1.6 million patients across South West London are to use iPlato and the myGP app. The free patient-facing platform helps speed up access to care by allowing patients to securely book and/or cancel appointments 24/7. Also fully […]
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GP Practices in Hull and East Riding to open Monday as systems start to come back online
GP practices across Hull and East Riding will be open as usual on Monday. However many are still bringing their IT and clinical systems back on-line following the cyber-attack, which took place on Friday 12 May 2017 and affected many organisations around the world. Some practices will not yet have […]
People living with diabetes benefit from watching films online
A pilot service-evaluation study, undertaken by Swansea University, has shown that watching short health information films online helps people living with type 2 diabetes reduce their HbA1c – an established marker of diabetes control. The report, to be published in the May issue of the international journal Primary Care Diabetes, […]
GP practice triples online patients in one week
A GP practice in Cumbria more than tripled the number of patients registered to use its online services in just one week with an extensive information drive. Practices across England aimed to get 10% of their patients registered for GP online services by 31 March, 2017. The Duke Street Surgery […]
New, faster Vision Appointments App now centrally funded through GPSoC
CCGs can now order Vision’s new Appointments App under the GPSoC framework. The app, available for order and deployment to practices free of charge, is set to cut typical appointment booking time in half. This frees up valuable admin time and reduces wait times for patients while booking or changing […]
Electronic records enable safer hospital care for Ayrshire patients
A multidisciplinary team is giving safer, more efficient care to vulnerable patients in an Ayrshire hospital, with the help of two-way record sharing via EMIS Health. More than 50 staff – including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists – have switched from paper records to the EMIS […]
Long-term conditions tool reduces GPs’ workload and speeds up care
A West Midlands GP is reducing workload and speeding up vital care for patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) using a new tool he developed using EMIS Health technology. Dr Nicholas Boeckx, of Halesowen Medical Practice in Dudley, has developed protocols and templates that enable trained healthcare assistants (HCAs) to carry […]
Great North Care Record sign up 96% of North East GP practices
369 practices across the North East are using the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) to share 3.6 million patient records. The Great North Care Record is a project led by GP practices, hospitals, community and mental health trusts. It aims to create an agreed Dataset of patient information which can be […]
NHS Wi-Fi launched in GP surgeries
More than five million patients will be able to access free to use Wi-Fi in early adopterGP practices, enabling them to link in with local health clinics and services and paving the way for future developments in digital patient care. In the first step towards roll out across the entire […]
GP patients now being referred to more appropriate services thanks to new online tool
GPs have welcomed a new online feature which is expected to bring about a reduction in the number of patients being referred to inappropriate services. Designed by NHS Digital, the new enhancement improves a GP’s view of information – making it easier for them to view service referral criteria before […]
