March 2010 Archives

March 1, 2010

• New Microsoft Health Solution Connects Hospitals With Patients and Referring Physicians to Improve Coordination of Care
• GPs raise concerns over access to medical records across the NHS in Scotland
• Aruba Networks and Motion Computing Deliver Unified Communications Services at the Point-of-Care in Hospitals and Remote Clinics

March 2, 2010

• GMC proposes annual skills appraisals for UK doctors
• NHS IT deal 'stitch up' claim by Conservatives

March 4, 2010

• Audit Scotland publish report on managing NHS waiting lists
• Hand-held device on trial for migraine sufferers
• Cancer drug firm launched in Dundee

March 6, 2010

• Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine

March 8, 2010

• Scots doctors raise concerns over the competence of NHS 24 nurses
• IT services ‘failing patients’, claims Committee report
• BCS Health Scotland Conference 2010

March 12, 2010

• Scottish Government announces funding allocations for health boards in 2010-11

March 15, 2010

• Poll: Nurses Spend a Quarter of Shift on Non-patient Care

March 16, 2010

• Cost of social care for the elderly is set to double in the next 15 years

March 18, 2010

• Scottish Government publishes bill to improve NHS patients' rights

March 19, 2010

• BMA Scotland publishes a critique of the recent Nuffield study on health spending

March 24, 2010

• Doctors outline recommendations for the future of high quality care for patients

March 27, 2010

• Audit Scotland reports on orthopaedic services
• Life Expectancy in Special Areas of Scotland

March 29, 2010

• Scottish Government announces £4 million investment in telecare for older people
• Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon launches the Patient Management System

March 30, 2010

• mHealth: The future of health is mobile