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Hospital transparency league table published

11 March 2016

NHS improvement has published a league table of NHS trusts according to their openness and transparency.

Healthcare IT appointments in brief

11 March 2016

This month’s round-up covers new chief information officer appointments Lewisham and Greenwich, Sandwell and West Birmingham and Morecambe Bay NHS trusts.

£55m to increase e-Referral uptake

10 March 2016

NHS England has set aside £55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to increase the uptake of electronic referrals to 100% by 2018.

Sheffield links £12m shortfall to Lorenzo implementation

10 March 2016

Challenges with booking and reporting patient activity following the implementation of Lorenzo at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are contributing to major activity under-performance, which has cost the trust £12 million to date.

Berkshire to share patient records with Graphnet

9 March 2016

Seventeen health and social care organisations across Berkshire will share the care records of 855,000 patients using CareCentric software from Graphnet.

Ipswich battles winter pressures with BI tool

9 March 2016

A winter pressures business intelligence tool developed at Ipswich Hospital with Medeanalytics is providing an early warning system for capacity shortfalls and enabling the trust to develop alternative provision.