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Alliance launches network for General practice

The NHS Alliance has launched a General Practice Network which it says is “the only network in the health sector to support the whole practice team – practice managers, GPs, nurses, and healthcare assistants.”
Should the NHS empower its own IT champions?

OPINION: The time may be right for NHS Trusts to work together to leverage the IT know-how of their own organisations and that of their fellow NHS organisations, argues Julian Osborne (pictured), IT Manager, IMS Maxims.
Revalidation is "only the beginning"

The new system of revalidation of doctors, which came into force December 3, "is only the beginning," according to Select Committee Chair Stephen Dorrell.
Care and support options go online

A quarter of adults who already use care provision say they struggled to find the care they needed and feel they ended up with the wrong type of support.
Innovative new online Counselling and Psychotherapy programme launched

University of Essex Online has joined forces with Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to launch a new web-based Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy programme – thought to be the first online course of its kind in the UK.
Wanted: GPs, nurses, pharmacists and commissioners to take part in on-line surveys

Join the eQ Panel and take part in internet surveys on topics related to disease management, commissioning considerations, and priorities in your practice.
Primary care productivity reforms must focus on cost effective policy options

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard is warning policy makers seeking to improve primary care productivity that reforms must be developed with care and a focus on evidence of the cost effectiveness of competing policy options.
GPs will use technology to improve their ratings online

Communications technology can help GP surgeries improve their online ranking on the newly launched NHS Choices website according to a company which specialises in telecoms for the medical sector.
Model Dementia estate opens in Malvern

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New Zealand's IT may hold key to quality care

A new focus on Health IT may hold the key to some of the cost effective solutions Clinical Commissioning Groups are searching for, said Chai Chuah (pictured), National Director of the National Health Board at the New Zealand Ministry of Health.