Missed 90% C+B target to remain for PCTs
The target for 90% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book is to remain for the NHS, even though the latest deadline has been missed by some way. Final figures are not yet available for use of Choose and Book to March 31, but it is clear the NHS will have fallen well […]
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Bradford goes live with iPM in just six months
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully deployed the iSoft iPM system in just six months, after striking a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation and Connecting for Health last October. The trust becomes the first hospital in the North East to go live with a CSC provided iSoft iPM PAS system. CSC took over […]
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Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England
The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP summary care record system launched in December. The GP out-of-hours system in Gwent was implemented by Graphnet Health working together with Adastra software. The project which took six months cost just £200,000. The Graphnet developed summary care […]
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Police recover stolen NHS laptop
A laptop stolen from Nottinghamshire Teaching Primary Care Trust containing the names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children has been recovered by police. The computer was one of three stolen from the PCTs offices at Sherwood Forest Hospital following a break-in on 21 March. It contained data on child patients aged between eight […]
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SCR opt-out sets ‘onerous’ conditions, says GP
Patients who want to opt-out from having a Summary Care Record will have to apply for exemption under section 10 of the Data Protection Act, on the grounds that it will cause them ‘substantial damage or distress’, according to new GP guidance. Dr Paul Cundy, chairman of the General Practitioners Committee Information Technology subcommittee, told […]
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GP records play key role in most popular paper
A database of anonymised GP records was the source for the most popular research paper of 2005 published by the British Medical Journal. The study, which showed that ibuprofen and other commonly used painkillers could increase the risk of a heart attack, was published in June 2005 in the BMJ. The online version of the […]
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Rio rolls out in West London trust
West London Mental Health NHS Trust rolled out the Rio clinical information system after an implementation involving 91,000 records and 250,000 clinical documents. First implemented last October on a restricted basis, the trust has now expanded the system to all its clinical teams, with 500-600 trained users now in action. West London’s director of IM&T, […]
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Guidance on computerised CBT launched
New implementation guidance for the use of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for mild mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety has been launched by the Department of Health. The guidance is being released following the success of two demonstration sites in Doncaster and Newham, set up last May, which found that facilitating patients […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards to reward outstanding work
Award winning healthcare IT news service, e-Health Insider and the NHS’s leading information and communication technology supplier, BT have joined forces to reward the best teamwork and individuals in their sector. The BT e-Health Insider Awards ’07 are launched today with opportunities for healthcare ICT people to gain recognition in five categories: Primary Care ICT […]
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E-discharge summaries needed, says GPs
GPs have called for better uptake of electronic discharge summaries to overcome the severe delays and quality issues that many experience with paper-based systems. A survey by the NHS Alliance of 650 practices revealed that 70 per cent of practices experience severely delayed discharge summaries either very regularly or fairly regularly, with delays of six […]
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