Unison hits out at Rotherham job losses
Trade union Unison has called on The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust to rethink plans that would see hundreds of staff laid off.
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Nottingham reduces clinical incidents
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has reduced night-time clinical incidents by 70% since implementing a new IT system to support its Hospital@Night working, a speaker told EHI Live 2012.
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Epic contract under review
Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS foundation trusts’ joint electronic patient record contract with Epic is under review, while Monitor takes a close look at Cambridge’s finances and performance.
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When Derby met Harris
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has built a bespoke portal with Harris Healthcare that it hopes will make the hospital paper-lite.
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Lamb ‘banging the drum’ for telehealth
Care minister Norman Lamb will be “banging the drum” for telehealth and telecare, trying to convince everyone in his path, he said at a conference this week.
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Birmingham goes paperless in outpatients
Outpatient consultations at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust are almost entirely paperless following the introduction of a clinical portal, the ICT director says.
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Consultant creates online patient tool
A consultant at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases has created an online patient assessment tool that could be launched abroad.
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Gwynne admits NPfIT mistakes
Shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne came as close as any politician is likely to do for apologising for the National Programme for IT in the NHS this morning.
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Skunkworks opens up IT for debate
Healthcare communities need to take responsibility for establishing the interoperability of IT systems, said one of the speakers during the Skunkworks debate at EHI Live 2012.
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ResearchOne gets ethical approval
TPP’s new patient database has received ethical approval from the NHS Research Ethics Committee and the National Information Governance Board.
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