Third of trusts miss wristband deadline
The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to meet the requirement to generate and print standardised patient wristbands. The NPSA has issued statistics to E-Health Insider that show that more than three months after the deadline passed in July, only 70% of NHS […]
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ASCC procurements for the South
Christine Connelly says the NHS will run “a series of procurements utilising the ASCC framework in January 2010” to provide community, child health and acute systems for trusts in the South of England. The news appears to set out the beginnings of a roadmap for those trusts not covered by the BT contract extension for […]
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Agfa Healthcare’s sales continue to drop
Agfa Healthcare’s sales have continued to decrease dropping by 5.5% compared with last years figures During Q3 of 2009 AGFA Gavaert said that is healthcare division made net sales of €275m, down from 2008 sales when Q3 sales were €291m. However, in its third quarter results, the company claimed that the business group’s profitability had […]
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EU study uses RFID to track medicine
The BRIDGE (Building Radio Frequency IDentification for the Global Environment) project has successfully concluded its three year initiative to research, develop and demonstrate the benefits of RFID. The €7.5m project involved implementing and trialling a full drug product tracking system using the EPC global network for supply-chain data collection and GS1 DataMatrix symbology. The DataMatrix […]
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King’s Fund: choice yet to drive quality
The government’s choice policy has yet to be fully implemented and has yet to drive quality in the NHS, a study by the King’s Fund has concluded. The results of a survey of patients attending eight NHS trusts and two independent sector treatment centres show that half did not remember being given a choice of […]
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Milton Keynes uses iWantGreatCare.org
NHS Milton Keynes has announced that it will be the first primary care trust in the UK to use ratings and reviews for individual GPs. The PCT has signed a deal with ratings website iWantGreatCare.org to collect information on local GPs. The PCT said patients would be actively encouraged to provide feedback each time they […]
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Connelly sets benchmark for November
The Department of Health’s chief information officer, Christine Connelly, has spelled out the criteria against which progress on the delivery of the Lorenzo and Millennium care records systems will be judged.
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EuroKing Miracle may be bought by HSS
EuroKing Miracle today announced that it expects to conclude negotiations to be purchased by Healthcare Software Systems Ltd (HSS), the radiology information system specialists. In an announcement issued after E-Health Insider yesterday reported the company faced imminent liquidation, Euroking Miracle said that it expected to be acquired by HSS. No details were provided of the […]
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New ASCC procurements promised for South
Christine Connelly says the NHS will run “a series of procurements utilising the ASCC framework in January 2010” to provide systems for trusts in the South of England.
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Bury goes live with first Lorenzo PAS
E-Health Insider has learned that NHS Bury has gone-live with Lorenzo Release 1.9, the first version of the software to include native patient administration functionality.
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