The Adventurous 4.0
In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Choose and Book’s national medical director, Dr Stephen Miller, outlines the latest developments to the online booking system.
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Tough at the top
Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy will have plenty on their desks when they take over the top jobs in NHS IT in mid September. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Choice on the buses
Solihull NHS Care Trust and Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust have launched a four month advertising campaign for patient choice and Choose and Book. The campaign, which started this week, will see advertisements placed on 124 buses, 85 bus stops and 48 billboards along major bus routes in the area. The two organisations […]
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NHS Connecting for Health backs Healthcare Interoperability showcase
NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for England’s IT modernisation programme, is sponsoring the Best Practice Showcase at E-Health-Insider’s Healthcare Interoperability conference and exhibition this autumn. The showcase will give IM&T professionals working in healthcare organisations the opportunity to describe and demonstrate good work they are doing to achieve interoperability between systems. One of […]
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Abergele Hospital gets BloodTrack OnDemand
Abergele Hospital has implemented a BloodTrack OnDemand system from Olympus so that staff can obtain blood from stocks held at the hospital rather than from its main blood bank, five miles away. The hospital, which is part of Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust, has seen immediate time and cost savings from the system, which enables […]
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Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices
Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses of government information. The independent website, which was founded by a Sheffield GP and is funded by subscriptions from trusts, regulators and others, has taken an NHS Choices data feed from a site run by […]
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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NHS Supply Chain awards wristband contracts
NHS Supply Chain has announced that eight suppliers have been chosen to provide patient identification wristbands to hospitals in England and Wales. The move follows studies published by the National Patient Safety Agency showing that a high proportion of patient safety incidents are linked to patients not wearing wristbands or wearing wristbands with incorrect information […]
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Data Sharing Review has messages for the NHS
Patients who consent to a course of treatment should be presumed to have given “implied consent” to having their data used for medical research, a review of data sharing across government has concluded. The NHS should also develop a system to allow approved researchers to identify patients who would be happy to take part in […]
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Winchester deploys single sign-on software
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has deployed single sign-on software from Evidian to simplify access to key applications. The software enables clinicians to use all the trust’s web-based services with a single user log-in and password. The trust’s head of IM&T, Tunde Ishola, said: “Previously, staff had to remember up to 15 unique sets […]
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