Digital Health: NHS Joined Up Service

Digital Health: NHS Joined Up Service

During the last 12 months, 3000 GP practices were connected to over 25 million UK patients in a new way, by offering free NHS Wi-Fi. That’s an astonishing move for a healthcare industry often seen as slow, cumbersome and highly risk adverse to anything ‘innovative’....
Prescribing Errors and Self Checking

Prescribing Errors and Self Checking

Chemist and Druggist have highlighted the BBC Inside Out story on Boots ‘self-checking’ of medicines and their relation to prescribing errors. Pharmacists self-checking their own work (to ensure that the right medicine goes to the right person at the right time), is...
Government plans for Digital Health

Government plans for Digital Health

Talking Medicines are part of a growing move toward managing digital health through innovation. This is in line with today’s Government framework for action. Digital Health in the NHS.  Talking Medicines are part of a growing movement toward managing health through...