Website set to boost North-west commissioning
Health bodies in the North-west have launched a new website, The North West Commissioning Roadmap, designed to support joint strategic commissioning in the North-west. The new website has been launched to help commissioners of both health and wellbeing services in the region to share the best in current practice across health and social care. It […]
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Digital pen supports breast screening in France
Anoto Group is helping breast cancer screening centres in France to speed up mammogram analysis using its digital pen and paper technology, as part of a national screening programme. Anoto launched its new software package, Anoto Forms Solution, designed specifically for the European health market earlier this year. The technology is being used to aid implementation […]
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Concerns raised over corporate use of NHSmail
Concerns about the future direction of the NHS’s private email service have ben raised after it was used for the first time for a corporate broadcast by the Department of Health on future policy plans. The message from health minister Lord Darzi on his proposed reforms of the NHS was sent out to all 180,000 […]
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Five million patients referred through C+B
Connecting for Health (CfH) says Choose and Book has now been used to refer over five million patients into specialist care. CfH, the DH agency responsible for the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), says all NHS hospitals are now using Choose and Book, along with 88% of all GP practices in England. In total […]
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Worthing says PAS teething problems over
Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust says it has resolved initial teething problems of its new Cerner Millennium patient administration system, provided by local service provider Fujitsu. The go-live has described by sources close to the trust as the best implementation of Cerner Millennium under the NHS IT project to date, but one which still requires extensive […]
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SUS blasted as ‘not fit for purpose’
The Secondary Uses Service (SUS) is not fit for purpose and is failing to provide GP practices and PCTs with the information they need for practice based commissioning (PBC), according to the NHS Alliance. The criticism of SUS follows the results of the latest quarterly survey of PBC published by the Department of Health last […]
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GP claims PDS increases information theft
The practice of extracting confidential patient information from GP practice staff has become much more frequent since the introduction of the Personal Demographics Service according to a GP IT representative. Dr Paul Cundy, co-chair of the Joint IT Committee of the BMA and Royal College of General Practitioners, is warning GPs and their staff to […]
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IT to be included in hospital ‘deep cleans’
IT and telephone equipment have been included in the Department of Health’s list of items be subjected to a rigorous cleansing, when all trusts are given a ‘deep clean’ to tackle infections such as MRSA and c. difficile. Every hospital in Britain is to undergo a ward-by-ward ‘deep clean’ within the next year to rid […]
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Lanarkshire’s mobile single assessment commended
North Larnakshire Council finished second at the Local Government IT Excellence Awards 2007 for their use of its single shared assessment software from Integral Mobile Data (IMD) on mobile devices. The council has been using IMD’s Integral mForms single assessment solution on mobile devices as part of its MySWIS Mobile Assessment project. mySWIS Mobile Assessment […]
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Wales completes satellite diabetic retinopathy deployment
Diabetic patients in Wales can now receive satellite-controlled diabetic retinopathy screening, following the successful implementation of Digital Healthcare’s OptoMize iP digital imaging system across the country. The Service has progressively extended from a local area service into a nationwide programme that now covers the whole of Wales, with over 78,000 diabetes patients now being offered […]
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