Electronic staff record now biggest NHS payroll provider
The NHS Electronic Staff Record is now installed in over 150 sites across England after being implemented of the largest set of sites yet, and is now the largest payroll provider in the NHS, according to latest figures published by the DH. The third and largest wave of the project so far was completed this […]
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London supplier switch looks closer
A number of well-placed sources told E-Health Insider this week that GE Healthcare had entered into a 90-day consultation with its IDX staff in the UK on Monday (24 July). Ninety days is the minimum consultation period between employers and employees if 100 or more employees may be dismissed as redundant at one establishment within a […]
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Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside
Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new solution enables users to raise requests for prescriptions to the hospital pharmacy through authorised web-access points. Ascribe says the main benefits are considerable time-savings and further reductions in errors, also that solution also marks a major […]
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QicSCRIPT gets drug barcode scanning
System Solutions have announced that they have released a new version of their QicSCRIPT patient medication record software that allows users to scan the product barcodes of drugs they are dispensing to be automatically checked against the prescription. The system, which will be compatible with NPfIT’s Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), bypasses the need for details […]
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Patient Opinion wins new media award
An online service that allows patients to report their experiences of NHS services has been “highly commended” in the New Statesman New Media Awards. Patient Opinion was commended by the awards panel after being shortlisted in the category of ‘contribution to civic society’. The website, founded by Sheffield GP Dr Paul Hodgkin, was launched nationally […]
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McKesson wins extension to NWCS contract
Connecting for Health has awarded a nine-month extension to the contract of healthcare IT supplier, McKesson, to provide its NHS-wide Clearing Service (NWCS) ClearNET, until 31 December 2006. The value of the contract has not been disclosed but the heading on the company’s announcement described it as “multi-million pound”. Commenting on the extension of the […]
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Caution urged in interpreting ‘outlier’ data
Ninety consultant teams in England are statistical outliers by the standards used in the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry, according to a data analysis conducted by Professor Sir Brian Jarman. However he says extreme caution should be applied in interpreting the results because there could well be scientifically credible explanations. Professor Jarman, the inventor of the hospital standardised […]
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EPS underspend due to slower rollout
Funding to pay pharmacists for using the electronic prescriptions service was underspent by more than 50% in the last financial year, pharmacy representatives have revealed. Only £22m out of the £58m allocated for EPS allowances by the Department of Health was spent in 2005-6 but the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) is confident the money […]
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Universal e-prescribing recommended for US
All prescribers and pharmacies should be using e-prescriptions by 2010, US experts on drug error prevention have recommended. A report from the Institute of Medicine’s committee on identifying and preventing medication errors says that greater use of information technology in prescribing and dispensing medicines is one of the main steps that should be taken to […]
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First chief clinical officer appointed by CfH
Professor Michael Thick has been appointed as Connecting for Health’s first chief clinical officer. The new chief clinical officer, who takes up his post with immediate effect, will be responsible for clinical governance and risk and safety management, and according to the agency will be "key to engaging stakeholders in the work of NHS CfH." […]
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