Discharge letter targets will create two-tier care
The NHS Alliance claims government targets for discharge letters will create a two tier system on a critical patient safety issue because the obligation will not apply to most foundation trusts. The organisation, which represents PCTs and GP practices, has been campaigning to improve the timeliness and quality of discharge summaries and last year called […]
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Pfizer partners with PCT on telephone care
Pfizer is working with a PCT to deliver telephone-based care management expects to sign up more PCTs within the next two years. UK Pfizer Health Solutions (PHS) has been working with the Birmingham East and North East PCT since April 2006 to deliver Birmingham OwnHealth, a nurse-led telephone care management programme. The PCT now plans […]
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Philips buys patient monitoring specialist Visicu
Royal Philips Electronics has agreed to acquire US-based clinical IT firm Visicu for around €290m, to expand its patient monitoring business.
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Taunton go-live with Cerner Millennium
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has become the eighth site in the South of England to go-live with the Cerner Millennium patient administration system under the National Programme for IT. The trust went live with Millennium Release 0, delivered by local service provider Fujitsu, on the weekend of 15-16 December. In a statement the […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 04.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 4 January, featuring supplier news, appointments, acquisitions and awards. Supplier News Manpower Software wins North West Wales NHS Trust contract Manpower Software has won a contract to deploy its MAPS Healthroster software at the North West Wales NHS Trust. The software allows users to create […]
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C+B incentives to go to extended access
GP incentive payments for Choose and Book will be redirected to pay for extended access to GP practices from April next year under controversial proposals put forward by the Department of Health. In a letter to the BMA’s General Practitioner Committee the DH has told GP representatives that it will impose changes to the GP […]
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NHS Direct demand breaks seasonal records
Over one million people contacted NHS Direct in England over the 11 day Christmas and New Year holidays, breaking all previous records. But in Scotland, demand for NHS24 showed a year-on-year decline. Figures for phone calls and online traffic to NHS Direct Online from 21 December 2007 to 1 January 2008 – show an increase […]
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MPs call for data loss to be a crime
Reckless or repeated breaches of data security should become a criminal offence, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee has urged in its report into the protection of private data. The call follows the loss of 25m people’s personal details by HM Revenue and Customs last November, described by the committee as ‘truly shocking’. The […]
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Cameron says NHS IT must be local
Conservative party leader David Cameron has attacked the NHS IT programme and called for local ownership and innovation. In a keynote speech at Trafford General Hospital to mark the 60th anniversary of the NHS, the opposition leader called for local NHS organisations to be allowed to innovate. He singled out the IT team at Trafford […]
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CSW awarded contract for Welsh Individual Health Record
Informing Healthcare, the NHS Wales IT agency, has awarded a three year contract to CSW Group Ltd to commence implementation of the Individual Health Record (IHR) in out-of-hours care in North West and South West Wales. The service is scheduled to become available for the 390,000 patients by spring 2008. The areas covered by the […]
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