London, 19 August, 2010 - Eligible patients in NHS Tower Hamlets will soon be benefiting from receiving SMS invitations for cervical screening from their GP surgeries. Free to receive for the patient, the reminder service is fully funded by the PCT. All GP surgeries will use the secure and NHS approved iPLATO Patient Care Messaging system to streamline this communication.

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London, August 4th 2010. iPLATO Healthcare announced today that the company has been awarded a framework agreement for Assistive Technologies which includes Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching products and services. This is good news for NHS organisations and Local Authorities across the country that will now be able to purchase products and services from an online catalogue under pre-agreed terms and conditions, managed by Buying Solutions.

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London, June 8th 2010 - iPLATO Healthcare, the leader in mHealth, announced today that a smart health promotion campaign delivered in partnership with 24 GP surgeries using iPLATO Patient Care Messaging generated 1,850 qualified referrals to NHS Health Checks in just four weeks. Supported by the iPLATO team the average participating surgery spent less than 1 hour on delivering this campaign which resulted in 1 qualified referral per minute of surgery effort.

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London, March 2^nd 2010, iPLATO Healthcare, the leader in mobile health today announced the launch of mSite - a new module of iPLATO Patient Care Messaging. mSite, provided free of charge to licensed GP surgeries, will enable each surgery to create their own mobile internet site to inform patients about opening hours, contacts details, access maps and out of hours services.

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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.

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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]

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.

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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.

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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]

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]

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]

Patients of the Bush Doctors and Richford Gate Medical Practice in Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust will soon receive automated voice messages requesting information to update their medical record.  [Read More]

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]

Newham residents are to benefit from receiving GP appointment reminders and health information on their mobiles phones via text message. Newham Primary Care Trust (PCT) has funded 47 GP surgeries to launch and operate iPLATO Patient Care Messaging. This new service has already been rolled out in some GP practices in Newham.

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GP Practices in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are piloting a new text messaging service to help reduce the number of missed appointments.

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A highly innovative scheme to use mobile technology to obtain a patients weight has proved a great success in Hammersmith & Fulham PCT.

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iPLATO Healthcare, leader in mobile health promotion, revealed that coverage of their Patient Care Messaging services has risen to over a million GP patients. Fuelling this growth has been the ground breaking platform combined with the company’s unique service offering and expertise which allows its NHS partners to dramatically improve patient access and deliver powerful health promotion campaigns.  [Read More]

Patients in Barking and Dagenham will soon be receiving health promotion information and appointment reminders to their mobiles phones via text message. Barking and Dagenham Primary Care Trust has offered the iPLATO Patient Care Messaging platform to their GP surgeries after evaluating the benefits of using mobile technology as a targeted and highly responsive way of engaging with patients.  [Read More]

Delivering critical health information to the people that need it most, nine GP surgeries in Lambeth, South London have been using iPLATO Patient Care Messaging to send text message invitations to patients for their annual Flu immunisation. Supported by Lambeth Primary Care Trust the initiative aims to increase immunisation rates amongst “at risk” patients whilst streamlining service delivery. Both the elderly and patients with chronic conditions, who are particularly susceptible to the flu during the winter months, are invited for free vaccinations via text message from their GP surgeries.  [Read More]

City and Hackney Primary Care Trust has partnered with mobile healthcare specialist iPLATO and seven local GP surgeries to pilot the use of advanced messaging services to reduce the prevalence of smoking in the borough. Supported by the PCT, GP surgeries will use iPLATO’s platform, Patient Care Messaging integrated to their GP system, to engage directly with patients around smoking status updates, invitation to stop smoking clinics, on-going quit support and follow-ups.  [Read More]

The 14th annual EMIS National User Group Conference to be hosted at Warwick University will see iPLATO featured as an exhibitor.  [Read More]

Travelling abroad? Text your country destination to 0780 0000 573 and find out if you may be at risk of contracting Malaria (not a premium rate service - texts are charged at standard rate according to network provider)

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GP surgeries in Islington have found that using text messaging for smoking cessation campaigns (getting smokers to quit) is six times more effective than traditional ways of contacting patients. Leading Islington practices using the iPLATO text messaging system have reported patient response rates of 30% (versus a response rate of 5% using letters). By isolating patients on their GP system, surgeries can send out a text message asking patients to text back their current smoking status. Patients who indicate that they are still smokers and trying to quit are then invited to smoking cessation clinics.

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Barts and The London NHS Trust and iPLATO hosted a knowledge sharing event on Monday the 10th of July 2006. The event brought together representatives from 13 Trusts from across London who came to listen to and discuss the initial findings from an iPLATO Patient Care Messaging pilot running at the acute trust since April 2006.  [Read More]

iPLATO, the leader in mobile healthcare applications, announced today that City & Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust has launched Patient Care Messaging for patients attending its Screening Service. iPLATO Patient Care Messaging will help to improve the service to patients in the long term: Care will delivered more efficiently and therefore be of better quality and less expensive. iPLATO Patient Care Messaging will be available to subscribing patients free of charge from March 1st onwards for City & Hackney tPCT’s Locomotor Service.

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London, 8th November 2005: Business communication specialist, Premiere Global Services (PGS), and leading mobile healthcare messaging company iPLATO, today announced an alliance aimed at broadening their healthcare reminder offering to customers in the UK and Northern Europe. Under the agreement, iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging service will now offer voice reminders alongside its traditional text messaging services, whilst PGS will integrate iPLATO’s mobile technology services into its healthcare Alerts and Notifications offering. Research shows that ten million GP appointments, four million practice nurse appointments and seven million outpatient appointments are missed annually and 30 per cent of these missed meetings are down to patients simply forgetting.  [Read More]

iPLATO, specialist developers in mobile and wireless technology applications, has launched the next generation of Patient Care Messaging (PCM), a new system that integrates with existing healthcare administrative and clinical systems to send automated appointment reminders to patients.

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