MTAS online recruitment portal to be dropped
Recruitment to specialist training posts in England next year is set to be handled locally rather than nationally, with the national recruitment portal to be abandoned next year. There were howls of protest from junior doctors earlier this year about the perceived shortcomings of the Medical Training Application System (MTAS) and failings of the national […]
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Six London trusts get RiO for mental health
Six mental health trusts in London are now using new IT systems, delivered under the NHS IT programme, to help deliver better care to patients. The six trusts, which account for 60% of the mental health trusts in the capital, are now using these new computerised patient record systems, as part of a London-wide NHS […]
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RTX launch new telehealth monitor
Danish telecare specialist, RTX Healthcare, is to launch a new wireless telehealth monitor, which it claims is interoperable with any clinical information system.
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Patient confidentiality extends beyond death
The Information Tribunal has ruled that medical records of a dead woman should not be released, because there is still a duty of confidentiality in its contents following death. In his ruling, Chris Ryan, the Information Tribunal deputy chairman, said the duty of confidentiality between patient and doctor should be maintained, even after death. The […]
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PRIMIS Plus awarded John Perry Prize
PRIMIS+ has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group conference for innovation and excellence in UK primary care computing. The data quality organisation received the award at the PHCSG’s annual conference last week. Sheila Teasdale, strategic director of PRIMIS+, said the award was recognition of the […]
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Suppliers set routes on the GPSoC roadmap
TPP’s SystmOne and the wide area network version of EMIS PCS should meet Connecting for Health standards for hosted systems by the end of the year, according to their suppliers. The eight suppliers that have been accepted onto the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) framework have published details of when they expect to achieve the […]
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CRS delayed MRSA patients being isolated
Problems with the Care Records System installed at Buckingham Hospitals NHS Trust resulted in delays to potentially infectious patients with MRSA not being isolated. The problem arose as after the new system was turned on historic infection control alerts then had to be manually entered onto the system in the six weeks following go-live The […]
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National Library for Health links up Athens sign on
The NHS National Library for Health has boosted its user friendliness by incorporating a modified version of the access and identity management service, Athens, into the library’s website. As part of the new agreement, over 257,000 NHS staff and placement students in England will be able to access full-text journals, key clinical databases and eBooks […]
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Adastra links with Map of Medicine
Out-of-hours clinicians using the Adastra system can now access the Map of Medicine clinical reference tool directly from Adastra’s On-line Clinician module. Adastra and Informa have completed a joint development project which enables clinicians working out of hours to have integrated access to the Map of Medicine. Clinicians highlight the word or words within Adastra […]
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Telephone depression treatment helps employees
Telephone cognitive behavioural therapy for depressed employees could have beneficial effects on not only clinical outcomes, but also workplace outcomes, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Philip Wang of the Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health, along with seven other researchers, held a randomised […]
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