With the official launch of the much-anticipated iPhone 6 taking place earlier this week, it’s not just the usual Apple fanatics getting excited. As Apple reveals further plans about its leap into the healthcare industry...
Waiting rooms are hardly the places many would wish to spend the hours of their day. At best they are often dull. At worst, an apprehensive patient concerned about their illness could find them very...
Last week we heard about the £30 billion funding gap faced by the NHS by 2020; this week the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) informed us that the funding gap between 2013 and 2021...
I read in Health Service Journal last Sunday (6 July 2013), comments from NHS England director for patients and information, Tim Kelsey that the funding gap in the NHS is set to reach a £30...
The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the regulator of health and care services in England, has come under intense scrutiny this week after allegations that former managers were involved in covering up a report into the...
When I first started at Highland Marketing, my only experience of the NHS was my own personal one from my childhood. I was born with a congenital condition which resulted in a severe curvature of...
Patient visits GP surgery: “Doctor, Doctor I think I’m suffering from writer’s block.” Doctor replies: “I really want to help you, but to be honest I’m all words.” Jokes about writer’s block aren’t funny because…er,...
The NHS Commissioning Board recently announced that CCGs are to be given £186m a year to invest in GP IT. But what does this mean and how will they spend it? With the transfer from...
After moving house a year ago, I had to change my GP surgery, having moved to a new catchment area. I registered at my new practice which was 26 miles down the road from my...
The government has entered a race to get the NHS ‘digitised’, with the ultimate goal of a paperless health service by 2018. Although most people will agree that this is the right course of action...
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