Nuffield blames ‘weak’ HC rating on computer problems
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has blamed its relatively poor performance rating from the Healthcare Commission on the failures of a new computer system. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has been given a ‘good’ rating for the use of resources element and a ‘weak’ rating for the quality of services element of the Healthcare Commissions annual […]
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One in five trusts below standard on patient information
One in five NHS trusts in England do not store, use and dispose of information about patients to an agreed NHS standard. The deficit comes to light in the Healthcare Commission’s first annual health check on all 570 NHS trusts in England which was published yesterday. In the annual health check trusts are awarded ratings […]
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European hospitals comparatively advanced in ICT
European hospitals are quite well-equipped with basic information and communication technologies compared to nine other key sectors in the economy according to a new survey, European e-Business W@tch 2006. The 10-sector survey by research firm Empirica, which is due to be published in full at the end of the year, looked at 834 acute hospitals […]
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Healthcare Commission’s website opens up all NHS data
The Healthcare Commission is today launching a website to give NHS patients and the public access to its entire database on NHS trusts. The website accompanies the launch of the Commission’s annual health check results in which all of the 570 NHS trusts in England will be rated on their quality of services and the […]
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Redundancies may include IT staff says Coventry PCT
Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust cannot guarantee that IT staff will be immune from redundancies following yesterday’s announcement confirming that up to 90 staff will be made redundant by the PCT. In a statement, the trust announced: “The likely redundancies will be across a range of areas and will include both primary and community care […]
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Plain Healthcare wins new WiC Contract
Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust (PCT) has awarded the contract for software for its new walk-in-centre to clinical decision specialists Plain Healthcare. The PCT opened its new £2m Walk-in Centre (WiC) in Eaglestone on July 4th and have opted for Plain’s FaceToFace Odyssey clinical decision support product to assess patients and decide on the urgency […]
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Carmarthenshire buys new asset management software
Carmarthenshire NHS Trust is set to invest over £80,000 in a new system to better track and manage its IT hardware and software, to improve helpdesk services and audits of IT resources. The trust will install UK public sector software specialists, Real Asset Management’s (RAM) Series4000, a suite of fixed asset software modules. The new […]
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iSoft wins pathology contract extensions
iSoft have secured three-year contract extensions to four of their NHS contracts for support and maintenance of its laboratory information systems (LIS) in a deal worth £2.7m. Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, St Mary’s, Paddington, and Salford Royal Hospitals have all renewed their existing LIS contracts with the software provider. A spokesperson from iSoft told […]
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Choose and Book set to miss 90% referral target
The Department of Health’s target for 90% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book by next March looks almost certain to be missed, as latest figures reveal every strategic health authority is behind schedule. The statistics show that while the average percentage of bookings made through the system is now 27%, many primary […]
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Children’s services system wins national IT award
The West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP) has won the Local Government IT Excellence Award for its ‘C-Me’ project, designed to improve the delivery of services to children in the region. West Lothian CHCP beat off competition from Hertfordshire County Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council to scoop the prize for its […]
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