90% of children back Child Index
More than 90% of children believe it will be acceptable for doctors, school nurses and health visitors to access the forthcoming Children’s Index , according to new research. The Office of the Children’s Rights Director ran discussion groups and carried out a web survey to discover the views of children and young people on the […]
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Nuffield Hospitals invest in new Dell hardware
Nuffield Hospitals group has replaced its entire desktop infrastructure with a new set of 3,500 new desktop PCs provided by Dell. The private hospital group, which has 40 hospitals in England and Scotland, made the investment after deciding its existing infrastructure had reached end-of-life and required replacement. Nuffield’s general manager for IT service management, Iain […]
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DTI says it will back UK telehealth firms
Industry and regions minister, Margaret Hodge has said that the Department of Trade and Industry wants to promote new telehealth technologies that are crucial to managing burgeoning healthcare budgets. Speaking at the London Telehealth conference this week, Hodges said: “New technologies can help deal with the ageing population in part. The DTI wants to develop […]
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Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter
Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project should be ready to begin by Easter. Speaking at the London Telehealth Symposium yesterday, Granger said that the delayed project summary record will be ready to begin rollout to initial pilot trusts by Easter. Dr […]
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Telecare can grow to meet demands of 2020
Telecare has the capacity to become a key tool in helping cope with future demands of the fast ageing population, once it gets past current restrictions. Over the next 50 years, the population of over 65s will rise from 9.3m to 16.8m, with an estimated 90% of people wanting to live in their own home with any support they need […]
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Maltese tender suspended due to corruption allegation
A €30m tender for an integrated health information system at Malta’s new Mater Dei Hospital has been suspended following an allegation that a ministry for IT (MITTS) official passed on commercially confidential award information to one of the two consortia competing for the contract. A statement from the MITTS department released on Tuesday confirmed that […]
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Patients to rate care received using new NHS website
The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs and hospitals. Patients will be able to post detailed reviews of their experiences in their GP surgery or of their hospital appointments, in a similar style to restaurant reviews. The aim of the website is […]
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Potential purchase of iSoft said to be nearing end-game
Newspaper reports today say that troubled software supplier iSoft is in talks with three final-stage bidders, naming US healthcare firms Cerner and McKesson, together with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners. According to the report in The Times discussions are at a late stage for the sale of the health software firm, which is at the […]
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Don’t pay for additional N3 bandwidth, PCTs told
Primary care trusts (PCTs) have been told that current N3 broadband links provide enough bandwidth to run all Connecting for Health applications and that no local top ups should be necessary in most cases. The newly-published guidance, which sets out the requirements for IT infrastructure now and in the future, makes it clear that in […]
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GP Systems of Choice procurement on track but late
The GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) scheme looks likely to go ahead – although procurement will not be complete by 1 April as originally planned. A spokesperson for CfH told EHI Primary Care that the GPSoC business case was approved by the Department of Health in December 2006. Approval from the Treasury is still outstanding but […]
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