NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project
Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record patient hospital discharge information, which will then become available to GPs. The project, which will use Capula’s Oasis patient administration software, forms part of NHS Fife’s electronic health record programme known as HOISS (Healthcare Organisations […]
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Bradford Teaching Hospitals procures for PAS
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued a European procurement notice for a new patient administration system (PAS) to be supplied outside the scope of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NHS foundation trust placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union at the end of July for a […]
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Staff cost savings claimed with e-rostering
The days of ward managers steeling themselves to work out staff rosters using pencils, paper and a large eraser may be numbered, according to Manpower Software which claims savings of £500,000 a year at two NHS trusts using its electronic rostering solution. A report published earlier this month by the National Audit Office on improving […]
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Patients give feedback on health info sites
Patients suffering from long-term conditions and their carers feel they benefit from regularly updated, information-rich support websites but think there is room for improvement in many instances, according to a detailed study carried out by University College London. People with chronic illnesses such as diabetes or hepatitis C, carers of those with Alzheimer’s and […]
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Weston goes live with Cerner
Weston Area Health NHS Trust has become to the second NHS trust in the South of England to begin to use clinical software from Cerner under the £12.4bn National Programme for IT. The trust confirmed to E-Health Insider that it had introduced the “initial stage” of the new software system over the last weekend in […]
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250,000 registered for NHS smartcards
Over a quarter of a million health service staff have now registered for an NHS smartcard, according to Connecting for Health (CfH). The cards give staff access to a range of programs and applications including Choose and Book and the Electronic Prescriptions Service (EPS). On average, the number of NHS staff in England registered for a […]
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NHS IT systems in NWWM slow to recover
Dozens of NHS trusts across the North West and West Midlands remained without access to their main patient management software today, after a Sunday morning failure at a data centre run by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) hosting NHS systems. Some trusts face being without systems until Thursday. The IT disaster, believed to be the most […]
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INPS Vision 4 to be London’s core GP solution
INPS’s Vision 4 is to be the core primary care solution offered to practices in London. The decision to opt for INPS (formerly In Practice Systems) as the preferred supplier in the capital is outlined in two letters to primary care trust chief executives from BT and London NHS chief executive David Nicholson yesterday. Patrick […]
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New version of Care Record Guarantee issued
NHS Connecting for Health has rewritten its Care Record Guarantee, changing some references to sealed envelopes and clarifying the use of anonymised records for research purposes. The guarantee, first published in May last year, aims to set out the rules governing information held in the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS). It covers patients’ access to […]
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UK version of PubMed Central launched
A major initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas via an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences was launched this week. UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), based on a US model, will provide free access to the archive and, it is hoped, help to speed up […]
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