South Central chooses McKesson for HR support
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust has selected McKesson Shared Services to support its HR and payroll functions. The deal will give the trust first-line support for administration tasks associated with using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR), which McKesson provides to the health service under a Department of Health contract. Natalie Edwards, the trust’s […]
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King’s Fund to run telehealth network
The Department of Health has funded a network to help expand use of telehealth and telecare and disseminate the lessons learned from the Whole System Demonstrator programme. The Whole System Demonstrators Action Network involves an action research programme involving 10 to 12 of the unsuccessful sites for the WSD programme. The groups, made up of […]
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German insurer launches glaucoma telemedicine
Techniker Krankenkasse is to provide patients with a Glaucoma telemedicine monitoring programme as a mainstream service.
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New wireless monitoring patch unveiled
Prototype version of ST+D’s electrode patch A wireless electrode patch that can be worn by a patient and tracked from any internet connection in the world is being developed by vital signs monitoring specialist ST+D technology, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The patch is being trialled at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital, with a view to […]
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Swindells says Darzi 50 per cent about information
Matthew Swindells has said that the NHS Informatics Review sets an unprecedented information challenge.
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DH group to look at wider NHS CRS access
The Department of Health has convened a group to look at widening access to the NHS Care Records Service including representatives from patients, nurses and pharmacists, according to Prof Michael Thick, Connecting for Health’s chief clinical officer. Prof Thick told last week’s Pharmaceutical Journal that the representative group was made up of various parties with […]
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BT on track to get southern Cerner trusts
British Telecom is on track to take over responsibility of the eight southern NHS trusts running Cerner Millennium from Fujitsu, with an agreement now likely to be reached in August. At the launch of the NHS Informatics Review last week Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, told E-Health Insider that negotiations were […]
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New website lets patients rate doctors
Dr Neil Bacon founder of www.iWantGreatCare.org A website has been launched that allows patients to rate individual GPs and hospital doctors and share information about their healthcare experiences. Visitors to the website, can rate their doctor using sliding scales for three questions: ‘Do you trust this doctor? Does this doctor listen? Would you recommend this […]
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Data Sharing Review has messages for the NHS
Patients who consent to a course of treatment should be presumed to have given “implied consent” to having their data used for medical research, a review of data sharing across government has concluded. The NHS should also develop a system to allow approved researchers to identify patients who would be happy to take part in […]
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HealthSpace set for big expansion
HealthSpace, the government’s secure online site for patients, is to be expanded to include shared records and GP appointment booking, according to the Health Informatics Review. The review, published last week, outlines a much wider role for HealthSpace and says its consultation highlighted strong support for the HealthSpace initiative. In future HealthSpace will be accessed […]
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