In the last ten years there have been several changes in MS care that have impacted on patients and their GPs and may have contributed to us seeing them less often.

A recent study has cast a dark cloud over the effectiveness of telehealth. But despite this study, this isn't the death knell for telehealth. But it may suggest that we need a different approach.

The Health and Social Care Act comes into full effect from April 1st. Most of us will have seen many sea changes in NHS structure - GP Fundholding, the demise of 'The Red Book' and the New Contract and now this...

This week we've announced a major landmark in the rollout of EMIS Web - over 2,000 GP practices have now upgraded to the transformational healthcare system, making it the most widely used GP system in England. This news also means that EMIS Web is now the UK's most widely-used hosted clinical system...

The publication of the Francis report last week has definitely put 'caring' in the spotlight. Clinicians from many different spheres are calling for a greater emphasis on this aspect of clinical behaviour.

As the numbers of doctors who smoke have reduced dramatically in recent years, heart and lung disease are now less of a problem for doctors than the general population. Overall our mortality is reducing in all categories except one - suicide, and women are more likely than men to die of this cause.

Jersey wants to create a model that puts the patient in the centre and wraps care around them. The aspirations for our IT infrastructure will not only facilitate that, they are, in fact, the key to the process.

Looking forward to the New Year and back at the old one, like Janus the two-faced Roman god of doorways and transitions (if Roman doctors had the NHS to work in, they would always be at his shrine), January is the perfect time to reflect on time and its passing.