AHPs embrace Choose and Book
Yvonne Pettigrew, CfH’s national clinical lead for allied health professionals Use of Choose and Book for referrals to allied health professionals has risen by more than 500% in the last year, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. Referrals via Choose and Book increased from 1,000 a month a year ago to more than 5,000 a month […]
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Cerner commits to acting locally
Cerner has started working with NHS trusts on a new, local implementation model that is designed to prevent the repitition of past mistakes, and focus on clinical benefits. The company says that through its NHS contract it still has the potential to transform the entire healthcare economy, but says that while holding on to the […]
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Audit Scotland flags concerns with ECR
Scotland’s national audit body has raised concerns about the scope and quality of the country’s Emergency Care Summary. In its latest report on medicines management, Audit Scotland says that nine out of ten health boards have now implemented the ECR in Accident and Emergency departments. The ECR contains information from GP records and is intended to help staff […]
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Audit Scotland revisits meds management
Scotland’s national audit body has urged the Scottish Government to encourage health boards to take up a national Hospital Electronic Prescribing Medicines Administration system as soon as one is available. In its latest report, Audit Scotland says the NHS in Scotland has improved the management of medicines in hospitals since it last examined the subject […]
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ICW works on New York e-prescriptions
German e-health firm InterComponentWare has partnered with the New York E-health Collaborative and Surescripts, the operator of the largest US e-prescribing network. The partners will create an e-health prototype project to enable e-prescription transmission between different healthcare organisations across New York, through the Statewide Health information Network for New York (SHIN-NY). If patients provide their […]
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New robot to assist elderly at home
The RobuLAB French robotics specialist Robosoft and SRI International have demonstrated a new service robot designed to assist the elderly at home. The RobuLAB, is able to navigate, follow and assist people moving from room to room using SRI Karto navigation software. The robot is aimed at developers and integrators building home-centric service robots. Robosoft […]
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GPs urged to adopt online sign language translation
A UK charity is urging GP practices to adopt a web-based sign language translation service which is currently available free of charge. The online sign language translation service won the BT E-Health Insider Award for product innovation in 2008. Sign Health, a charity focused on the needs of the deaf community, says it has been prompted to […]
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Pennine Care orders Ardentia data warehouse
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health trust, has ordered a data warehouse system to improve its information management and reporting. The trust has chosen a mental health reporting system from Ardentia, which will enable data to be brought together from multiple sources, including inpatient and outpatient activity, referrals, review records and caseload […]
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Royal Free chief executive resigns
Andrew Way, the chief executive at the Royal Free Hampstead Hospital, which was plunged into financial crisis following installation of a new IT system last year, has resigned. The problems were so serious at Royal Free that, in October, all Cerner Millennium deployments in the capital by local service provider BT and NHS London under the National Programme for […]
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NHS Choices to publish mortality rates
NHS Choices is to start publishing hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios on its website. The government’s flagship health site already publishes generalised mortality rates for heart surgery and operations such as hip and knee surgery. But within the next few weeks, doctors and patients will be able to access much more specific information. The HSMR figures will […]
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