NHS 111 here to stay – NHS England
NHS 111 will remain integral to NHS England’s plans to improve urgent and emergency care, despite criticism from GPs.
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NHS 111 goes online
NHS England is testing an online version of non-emergency phone service NHS 111 that uses a simplified version of the algorithm used by call handlers.
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Ambulance trust quits NHS 111 contracts
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is pulling out of two NHS 111 contracts in the south west of England.
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NHS 111 should be scrapped – GPs
NHS Choices aims to aggregate
NHS Choices plans to become an aggregator platform for a more integrated system of NHS services, its head of business development has said.
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Calling up a storm
Thomas Meek looks at the troubled history of NHS 111 in the first of a short series of features looking at the major healthcare IT initiatives of the present government in the run up to the general election.
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Put GPs on NHS 111 calls – Hakin
Providers of the NHS 111 telephone service should have GPs on hand to provide clinical advice at peak times, according to NHS England’s national director of commissioning operations.
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NHS 24 IT system late and over-budget
The cost of NHS 24’s new computer system has risen dramatically, according to an Auditor General for Scotland report that says the project is now unlikely to go-live until October next year.
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NHS 111 to screen for Ebola
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday that NHS 111 call handlers will screen callers for Ebola as part of new measures put in place to prepare for cases of the disease in the UK
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Herts Urgent Care connects to MIG
Herts Urgent Care is working with Advanced Health and Care to connect to the Medical Interoperability Gateway and access real-time patient data from three different primary care systems.
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