Team24 News Article - New EU Directive Offers a Healthy Outlook for Niche Recruitment Companies like Team24
The European Working Time Directive states that by 1 August 2009 all doctors in training should be working a 48-hour week. Aimed at protecting trainee doctors' health and safety from the effects of working long hours, recruitment industry leaders are also seeing this move as a great opportunity, writes Robert Stiff MD Team24.

What is Electronic Patient Record Software?
Electronic Patient Record (EPR) software is rapidly replacing the traditional paper based notes used by GPs, dentists, hospitals and other NHS departments and services, as part of the Connecting for Health IT programme. One of the aims of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is to transfer 60 million paper based records to Electronic Patient Record software by 2010.

Who Can I Turn To When Claiming Compensation for Medical Negligence?
Medical negligence (also known as clinical negligence) can be said to have occurred when you receive medical care that has caused you illness or injury.

General Practice Surgeries Going Digital with WinScribe
26 General Practice surgeries under NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale in UK are now using WinScribe Dictation for the everyday running of their clinics. All general practioners (GPs) and secretaries are very enthusiastic about WinScribe Dictation and have seen positive improvements to their working conditions since using WinScribe for the creation of referral letters and patient reports. The NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale has been the driving force of this move to digital technology. A primary objective of the IT Department was to identify a central digital dictation system that could be accessed by all the GPs in a secure environment regardless of the surgeries’ location.