Infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare has published its infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales. The first edition covers networking, user access devices, servers and storage, messaging and collaboration, directory and voice services. In each case, the strategy describes the current position, the strategic aim and the next steps towards achieving this aim. However, Informing Healthcare says the resources needed […]
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Colchester manager sacked over lost laptop
A senior hospital manager, who lost a laptop containing the unencrypted records of more than 20,000 patients while he was on holiday, has been dismissed from his position. The manager from Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, lost the laptop in Edinburgh in June, and was initially suspended while a police investigation and an internal […]
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Choice on the buses
Solihull NHS Care Trust and Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust have launched a four month advertising campaign for patient choice and Choose and Book. The campaign, which started this week, will see advertisements placed on 124 buses, 85 bus stops and 48 billboards along major bus routes in the area. The two organisations […]
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Website logs student drinking habits
Health researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a website that encourages students to keep track of their drinking. Unitcheck encourages young people to check how many units they are consuming, how this affects their health, and how their drinking compares with that of their peers. A pilot scheme funded by the European Research […]
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Further role for NHS Choices in DES guidance
Patients will be able to check whether their GP practice meets national data accreditation standards via NHS Choices, according to NHS Connecting for Health. The IT agency has released new guidance on the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES), which reveals plans to publish practices’ data accreditation status. The guidance states that data accreditation activity logged […]
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NHS work boosts Atos Origin
International IT services company Atos Origin has reported strong UK financial results for the first six months of the year, partly boosted by NHS work. The company, which is responsible for the Choose and Book electronic appointment system, reported revenues up to £376m for the first half of the year. In England, Atos Origin has […]
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New leaders for NHS IT
The Department of Health has announced Christine Connelly as the first chief information officer for health and named Martin Bellamy as director of programme and systems delivery, leading NHS Connecting for Health. The new appointments follow the departure of Richard Granger as director general of NHS IT in January and a review of NHS IT […]
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Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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NHS Connecting for Health backs Healthcare Interoperability showcase
NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for England’s IT modernisation programme, is sponsoring the Best Practice Showcase at E-Health-Insider’s Healthcare Interoperability conference and exhibition this autumn. The showcase will give IM&T professionals working in healthcare organisations the opportunity to describe and demonstrate good work they are doing to achieve interoperability between systems. One of […]
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Switch to ‘permission to access’ on SCR
Patient information will be uploaded to the Summary Care Record with implied consent and patients will then be able to choose whether to give “permission to access” under the new consent model for the SCR. Individual GPs will also be given discretion to decide whether the initial upload of information should include only details on […]
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