Choose and Book slot availability improves
Problems with slot availability on Choose and Book are beginning to fall, with availability issues affecting between 12% and 13% of patients, compared with 20% three months ago, according to the e-booking team. Dr Stephen Miller, national medical director for Choose and Book, said slot availability issues have fallen over recent weeks but work still […]
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Westminster accelerates access to applications
Westminster Primary Care Trust has solved lengthy log in times for community staff by implementing a Cisco Wide Area Application Service across five of its 22 sites. By using the WAAS and sorting out profiles the PCT has reduced log on and log off times to its network from over seven minutes to less than a minute, […]
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Information Centre checks GP Choices details
The NHS Information Centre is contacting every GP practice in England to check the accuracy of data held about them on NHS Choices. The website’s own research has revealed that some of the information is wrong. The massive data checking exercise has been initiated because primary care trusts are planning to distribute literature to English […]
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Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next year. The Connectathon provides a unique opportunity for application interoperability testing, taking existing standards and frameworks and showing they work in real systems. The event will be hosted by the Austrian IHE initiative, which says […]
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Consent to view to get first test
Five GP practices in South West Essex are to become the first GPs in the country to implement the new ‘consent to view’ model for the Summary Care Record from this week.
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No more pins: digital signage in Birmingham
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has deployed one of the UK’s largest digital signage networks. The Connectvision system from Saturn Communications Group will deliver visitor and internal information to 75 digital LCD screens and more than 5,000 desktop PCs. The trust says that on any one day, 10,000 patients, visitors and staff can be […]
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Hungary signs e-health deal with GE Healthcare
The Hungarian government has awarded GE Healthcare a €3.3m deal to lead a project on developing telecare services for elderly citizens.
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NHS Tayside and Lanarkshire guilty of data breaches
Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper records at abandoned hospitals. NHS Tayside and NHS Lanarkshire have been ordered to sign an agreement to comply with the Data Protection Act (DPA) or face possible future prosecution. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found […]
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Dr Glyn Hayes made BCS honorary fellow
Dr Glyn Hayes, GP, a pioneer in health informatics, has been made an Honorary Fellow by the British Computer Society (BCS). Dr Hayes was described by the BCS as “the undisputed elder statesman of primary care informatics.” He was made an honorary fellow in recognition of his valuable contribution in shaping health care informatics, particularly […]
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Royal Free says Cerner creates duplicate x-ray risk
Patients at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust are potentially at risk of having duplicate x-rays ordered and receiving double exposure, following the introduction of a new Cerner electronic record system.
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