Patients check records for errors
A practical exercise to find out how many errors patients can find in their records and how many entries they would wish to keep out of any shared record is underway at Hadfield, Derbyshire. Dr Richard Fitton, a GP who is a member of England’s Connecting for Health Care Record Development Board and a fervent […]
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CfH begins NHS information blitz
A marathon campaign to tell the nation about the NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS) gets underway today with a leaflet blitz on NHS staff. The 12 page leaflet, which is accompanied by a poster, gives an overview of how the programme will work and its impact on various aspects of modern care delivery. A […]
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Lib Dem NHS whistleblower site launched
The Liberal Democrats have launched a new campaigning website www.libdemnhswatch.com designed to enable members of the public and NHS staff to highlight problems in the frontline health service. The new website, designed to hear feedback and concerns from thousands of patients and medical professionals, is designed to connect the Lib Dems to the front line […]
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Allergies must be Read coded for GP2GP
GPs and practice teams are being advised to record all allergies and sensitivities as Read coded entries to solve a potential problem with GP2GP record transfer. The team working on the introduction of GP2GP, which includes representatives form the joint General Practitioner Committee and Royal College of General Practitioners’ IT committee, have discovered difficulties with […]
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West Midland Ambulance Service upgrades network
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has implemented a fully managed private network from Telewest Business, which for the first time connects its operational ambulance stations and district headquarters. The new network will underpin the modernisation of WSAS’s communications and also support new e-learning applications to equip paramedics with information to enhance public services. The managed […]
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Pathology tech revamp to be ‘re-energised’ by DH
Pathology test results being sent electronically to care providers overnight, and testing facilities being made available in non-traditional settings, are two applications of technology to be looked at by an independent review of pathology services set up by the Department of Health this week. The independent review panel will look at ways that existing technology […]
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Diabetes care guideline recommends use of IT
New international guidance on type 2 diabetes management has included recommendations for making telephone support and electronic medical records available to patients. The first Global Guideline for Type 2 Diabetes, published this week by the International Diabetes Federation, advises on three levels of care: Standard care; evidence-based care which is cost-effective in most nations with a […]
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Agfa selected as Accenture’s PACS supplier
Agfa-Gevaert has formally announced that it has been selected by Accenture to provide digital radiology imaging management solutions to the North East and East clusters in England as part of Accenture’s work in delivering the NHS National Programme for IT. Agfa will provide include Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Computed Radiography (CR). The […]
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Lab system supplier gets N3 nod
Labs system software supplier Technidata UK has announced that it has become among the first independent software suppliers to be given the right for their products to connect to N3, the new NHS network being installed under the National Programme for IT. Paul McKenna, implementation and training manager at Technidata UK, told E-Health Insider […]
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‘Unworkable’ smartcard rules to be re-written
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has been forced to scrap the rules that practices must sign up to when they receive a smartcard after it has emerged the policy is unworkable in general practice. Thousands of GPs may have already unwittingly agreed to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) which includes requirements such as an agreement not […]
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