London trust seeks ‘fin’ to outdated financial processes
Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is appealing to FinTech companies to transform its financial operations through automation.
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Movers and shakers news round-up
Our latest quick-fire round-up of appointments from the UK healthcare scene includes movements at NHS Education for Scotland, AXA PPP and Healthcode.
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Kent CCG goes live with mobile-based prescription ordering app
Healthera will replace the traditional method of ordering through a pharmacy or GP within NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG from 3 September.
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Bright sparks encouraged to submit ideas to innovation competition
NHS staff and SMEs in the North East and North Cumbria have until 17 September to submit their proposals to the Bright Ideas in Health Awards 2018.
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EPR divergence in a local area ‘will not be supported’ under HSLI
STPs will be expected to support a move to a standard electronic patient record system across all regional organisations under the HSLI programme.
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Now Healthcare to open robot-powered ‘digital pharmacy’ in Liverpool
A £1.5m, robot-powered tele-pharmacy is being opened in Liverpool to improve access to medication for people living with long-term health conditions.
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The benefits of remote control at St Helens and Knowsley
After a six-month trial, staff at St Helens and Knowsley have become more convinced than ever before of the potential of telemedicine. Owen Hughes visited the trust to find out more.
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Servelec and Microtest assert interoperability ambitions with IT tie-up
From Autumn, NHS trusts using the Servelec RiO EPR will be able to share information with GP practices running Microtest Open Evolution.
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NHS Digital tests waters for new £450m GP IT framework
NHS Digital has published a prior information notice for the new Digital Care Services framework, which will replace the outgoing GPSoC agreement.
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