Slow Take-Off For E-Learning
E-Learning has yet to take off as hoped for or predicted, according to an article in the current issue of People Management magazine. According to an annual survey of training and development conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development less than a third of training managers said that they used e-learning. The article […]
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Expanded Role for NHS Direct
Supporting people with chronic conditions, supporting ambulance services and reducing waiting times in A&E will be part of the expanded role for NHS Direct, health secretary Alan Milburn has announced. At a speech in Newcastle to mark the service’s fourth anniversary, Mr Milburn said, "NHS Direct shows that putting in the resources delivers real results […]
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DH Presents Blueprint for IT Transformation
A plan for transforming NHS IT is on its way to the Treasury this week. If all goes well, the resources needed to implement its proposals will come on stream in April 2003 and the government wants the new developments in place by the end of 2005. The plan was announced at HC 2002 in […]
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Switching on Lightbulb
Early birds who rose in time for an HC 2002 breakfast meeting were rewarded with an account of the preparatory work underway on IT for cancer services in Birmingham with Lightbulb, the IT vendors’ group working to produce joined-up healthcare using web-based services. Colin Innes, director of IM&T for Birmingham health authority, told E-Health Insider, […]
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NHS Web-based Email Due for Summer Launch
A national email service designed to meet the needs of the NHS is now due to be launched this summer, the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) announced at HC2002. Development of a national email system for the NHS is linked to the NHSIA’s work to provide a national directory service, holding contact details for one million […]
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Top Effectiveness Prize for Wirral
An automated dispensing system that has saves staff time and reduces drug dispensing errors took the top prize in the 2002 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards. The system was the brainchild of a team at the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK centres most closely associated with pioneering IT developments. The team developed new […]
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Audit Commission says Information Quality a Priority
The Audit Commission has published a new report highlighting the need for NHS organisations to take urgent steps to improve the quality of data used in administrative and clinical systems. ‘Data Remember: Improving the quality of patient-based information in the NHS’, mainly focuses on the quality of data used in administrative systems, and says that […]
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Review Underway to Get EPR ‘Back on Track’
Jon Hoeksma A major review of Electronic Patient Records (EPR) is underway by the Department of Health to get the programme back on track and the Information Policy Unit (IPU) has at last acknowledged the early EPR targets will not be met. E-Health Insider has learned that a review of the EPR programme is underway […]
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EPR at the Heart of NHS Redesign
Electronic patient records (EPRs) are good news for NHS organisations and patients, but recent academic research by the NHS Confederation’s Matthew Batchelor found that many organisations are facing significant barriers to their implementation. In an exclusive article for E-Health Insider, Batchelor summarises his key findings. The research, undertaken in autumn 2001, focused mainly on acute […]
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Government Urged to be Patient on Patient Records
The Government should accept that the 2005 target for electronic patient records will be missed and not be panicked into a national big bang approach that could have disastrous consequences for the health service, leading IT suppliers have warned. Having already accepted that the 2002 target for 35% of NHS trusts to have level three […]
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