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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS trust stroke consultant wants research into telemedicine for early supported-release for patients Professor Tony Rudd, the lead clinician for stroke services at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation trust, has said there needs to be more research into the use of telemedicine services to aid the early supported discharge of stroke patients. "I think that telemedicine could be expanded. I am very keen to do research into it," Rudd told Guardian Government Computing. Applications of telemedicine in stroke treatment could be in releasing people from...

NHS informatics director Charles Gutteridge says secure personal health record project will close 'over the next year or so' HealthSpace, NHS patients' personal health records organiser, will close within a year, according to Dr Charles Gutteridge, national clinical director for informatics at the Department of Health (DH). Speaking at the Westminister Health Forum in London, Gutteridge said that although he has used HealthSpace to communicate with patients, he did not think it was a technology that would ever take off. "It is too difficult to make an account; it is too difficult...

North Bristol NHS trust says £2.33m hike in costs of Cerner system in recent months were due to need for extra staff, hardware and technical resources North Bristol NHS trust has confirmed it has overspent on its Cerner electronic patient record (EPR) system by almost 100% in recent months. The trust spent £5.36m implementing a Cerner e-patient record system in the 11 months to the end of February, £2.33m more than orignally planned. The budget overrun was due to the provision of extra "floor walkers" to help hospital staff with the new system and additional technical resources, according...

Patients should not be charged more to call NHS organisations than to call a local number, guidance highlights The Department of Health has issued a reminder to GPs and NHS bodies to stop using expensive 084 numbers. The guidance document highlights that GPs and NHS organisations' phone lines should not cost more to call than a geographic number, those starting with either 01 or 02. The use of premium rate numbers in the NHS, such as those beginning 0870 or 09, was banned by the department in 2005. The ban excluded 084 numbers which, while they can cost more than a call to a geographic number...