COVID-19: More than one million access NHS 111 support for coronavirus
More than one million people have used a dedicated NHS online support service for coronavirus since it was launched on 4 March, NHS England has said.
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Dr Google ‘diagnoses’ 100m health concerns as GP wait times rise
More people are turning to Google to self-diagnose their boo-boos and ailments, with Londoners proving the biggest ‘cyberchondriacs’.
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NHS 111 online hits one million triage since 2017 launch
Data from NHS Digital revealed the most common symptoms for which people use NHS 111 online are related to abdominal pain and dental problems.
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Is NHS 111 a waste of time?
Our GP columnist looks at few instances where his acquaintances or patients had to deal with NHS 111 and wonders if the solution lies in ‘playing with data’ to derive interesting insight.
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Part 2: Can tech help in averting next winter crisis?
In this second article of two-part series, Shreshtha Trivedi looks at how primary care and urgent care sector are using digital to respond to winter pressures, what is working and how can we accelerate the transformation agenda for next winter.
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Hunt says technology will create “patient power decade” in NHS
Jeremy Hunt used his keynote speech at the Health and Care Innnovation Expo to announce a series of new promises on online access to healthcare information, with a view to ensuring the next 10 years come to be known as the NHS’s “patient power decade”.
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Hunt to promise every NHS patient app access to records
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says every patient in England will be able to use an app to access their medical records and book GP appointments by end 2018.
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Babylon Health to power NHS 111 with ‘AI triage’ bot
An a chatbot app will field less serious health complaints from 1.2 million NHS patients in North Central London as part of a NHS 111 pilot.
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Doctors beat algorithms on diagnosis – study
Doctors “vastly outperformed” computer algorithms when it comes to giving a correct , according to an American research trial.
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West Midlands CCGs axe 111 procurement
Sixteen clinical commissioning groups in the West Midlands have abandoned their procurement of an NHS 111 service after failing to attract an acceptable bid.
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