2009 Press Releases

Dec 10-2009	National Hospital and iPLATO Launch New Service to Support People with Epilepsy London, December 10^th 2009. The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery announced today that it is launching a new service to support people with epilepsy. This innovative service, offered in partnership with iPLATO Healthcare, aims to help the hospital’s patients improve the management of their condition using web and mobile based technology. The service will offer medication support for people with epilepsy with the option of alerts for carers, as well as helping them monitor their overall condition through a web based patient diary. [Read More]
Nov 5-2009	NHS Bristol fights Smoking with iPLATO Healthcare London, 05 November 2009, Bristol residents have been benefiting from receiving GP Appointment Reminders and Health Promotion information on their mobile phones via text message. Over 90% of GP Surgeries in NHS Bristol signed up for the iPLATO text messaging solution to address important public health concerns, in particular smoking prevalence, via GP-led SMS Health Promotion campaigns. [Read More]
Oct 27-2009	SMS has major role to play for Swine Flu vaccination during postal strike London, 26^th October 2009. From today GPs will be receiving deliveries of the Pandemrix vaccine and will begin contacting ‘at risk’ groups for Swine Flu vaccination appointments. It was recently reported that there are fears that the backlog of post following the current Royal Mail strikes will affect the programme, resulting in ‘at risk’ groups missing their appointments and therefore delaying getting their vaccination. Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer has warned that thousands of people could miss appointments for their swine flu vaccine due to these postal strikes. [Read More]
Oct 22-2009	Greenwich patients benefit from text messages from their GPs 22 October 2009. Patients of GP practices in Greenwich will soon benefit from receiving text messages to support health promotion and patient ‘access’. NHS Greenwich has recently funded iPLATO Patient Care Messaging for 39 Greenwich surgeries. This new text messaging service aims to provide an effective communication channel for the support of health promotion campaigns such as Stop Smoking and also help reduce the number of missed GP appointments, by automated appointment reminders. [Read More]
Oct 9-2009	NHS Hammersmith and Fulham fight smoking with text messaging service London, 8^th October 2009, An innovative scheme to use mobile technology to obtain a patient’s current smoking status and invite ‘quitters’ for Smoking Cessation services, has proved a great success in NHS Hammersmith and Fulham. NHS Hammersmith and Fulham have a smoking prevalence of 24.2% and are committed to cutting that number down every year. [Read More]
Sep 24-2009	GP Surgeries in Camden use Text Messaging Services Camden, London, 24 September 2009 - Patients of GP practices in Camden are benefitting from receiving appointment reminders and health information to their mobiles phones via text message. NHS Camden recently funded their surgeries to launch and operate the healthcare specific text messaging platform iPLATO Patient Care Messaging. The new patient service aims to reduce non-attendance to appointments as well as informing about important NHS services such as cancer screening and immunisation. [Read More]
Sep 14-2009	iPLATO chosen in Tech Media Invest Top 100 list London, 7^th September 2009, iPLATO has earned a place in the Tech Media Invest Top 100. This is a list of the hottest emerging and most innovative companies in the ever converging tech and media industries. The Top 100 list was revealed today by Europe-Unlimited, Europe’s leading event organisers for investors and technology companies, in association with The Guardian, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kemp Little. [Read More]
Aug 5-2009	GP Surgeries use SMS to advise Patients on Swine Flu London, 5^th August 2009, GP Surgeries in Camden are successfully sending out text messages advising patients on what to do if they think they have Swine Flu. The GP surgeries are some of the first to use text messaging as a way to help people deal with the Swine Flu pandemic. The iPLATO Patient Care Messaging service, which is being used by the surgeries to send out the Swine Flu related text messages, was originally funded by the PCT to improve efficiency and performance across a range of healthcare areas. [Read More]
Jul 17-2009	North London Community Dermatology Service Reminding Patients of Appointments via Text Messaging London, 17 July 2009 - The North London Community Dermatology Service (NLCDS), which started 1^st July 2008 and based at The Royal Free Hospital Hampstead, are now benefiting from receiving appointment reminders to their mobiles phones via text message on an ongoing basis. The NLCDS have started using the iPLATO Patient Care Messaging (PCM) system in line with an increasing trend to utilise mobile technology to efficiently communicate with out-patients. [Read More]
Jul 15-2009	GP Surgeries in Wirral to use Text Messaging Services Wirral, England, 15 July 2009 - Patients of GP practices in Wirral are benefiting from receiving appointment reminders and health information to their mobiles phones via text message. NHS Wirral has recently funded participating surgeries to launch and operate a Patient Care Messaging service, which aims to inform patients about NHS services, such as cancer screening and immunisation, to reduce the number of people who do not turn up to their appointments. [Read More]
Apr 21-2009	SMS messaging can help NHS to go ‘green’ With Earth Day on the 21^st of April, the increasing adoption of iPLATO’s text messaging system, Patient Care Messaging, by NHS organisations across the UK for health promotion initiatives and GP appointment reminders is proving to be a great way of creating a ‘greener’ NHS. [Read More]
Feb 20-2009	Text Messaging contributes to improved attendance for Breast Screening in Tower Hamlets Recent results from a Tower Hamlets PCT text messaging campaign have shown that text messaging contributes to improved attendance for Breast Screening in Tower Hamlets. The iPLATO supported campaigns that ran throughout last summer were implemented alongside a number of tools and techniques to improve the rate of screening (e.g. posters campaigns, calling patients directly, well women clinics and focus groups), all designed to encourage women in Tower Hamlets PCT to attend their breast screening appointment. [Read More]
Feb 16-2009	Text Campaigns Support Sexual Health Initiatives in London Increasing numbers of GP surgeries across London are opting to use the iPLATO text messaging capability to increase the uptake of self screening tests for Chlamydia. The iPLATO Patient Care Messaging system is being used to support initiatives aimed at addressing the dramatic increase of the infection, which according to the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) could be affecting 1 in 10 people under the age of 25 who are sexually active. [Read More]
Feb 3-2009	Childhood Immunisation via SMS in Southwark PCT GP surgeries in Southwark Primary Care Trust (PCT) have been using iPLATO’s text messaging solution to invite patients for their MMR jab and to alert parents of the recent measles outbreaks in local schools within the Borough. Southwark PCT decided to partner with mobile health promotion specialists iPLATO in response to an increase in the number of measles cases reported in Southwark over the last few months. [Read More]

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