2008 Press Releases

Aug
21-2008

GP-led Hypertension health promotion campaign delivers response rates of 76%

City and Hackney Primary Care Trust Recent results from a text messaging campaign for calling hypertensive patients in for periodic blood pressure reading ran by the Lea Surgery in City & Hackney tPCT has delivered response rates of 76%. [Read More]

Aug
5-2008

Oldham GP’s get to grips with new text messaging service

Tens of thousands of people in Oldham will now be receiving text messages from their GP.

These will include everything from reminders about GP, jab and breast screening appointments to health messages about quitting smoking.

This new and innovative scheme is rolling out across the borough - with several practices already signed up and ‘running with it’. [Read More]

Aug
4-2008

Pharmacies in London to run mobile smoking cessation campaigns via SMS

Pharmacies in London will launch a text messaging service to validate smoking status and invite ‘quitters’ for smoking cessation services in addition to using the system for ‘follow-up’ over the next year. The adoption of the Patient Care Messaging service, provided by iPLATO, has been driven by the successful use of the system for similar campaigns in GP surgeries across 34 PCTs. [Read More]