ICT service launches whistleblowing tool
Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Luton ICT Services has launched a feedback tool that it says provides a simple, anonymous solution for NHS staff and patients to report concerns about the way services are run.
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IT issues for Manchester NHS devolution
Plans to give Greater Manchester control of an integrated £6 billion NHS and social care budget will need to overcome the technological obstacles of systems integration and data sharing, health IT experts say.
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Enter the CCG on wall washing and sex
Dr John Lockley has a hot tip for washing a wall; and some hotter ideas for spreading ideas about NHS IT.
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Surrey CCG uses Medway to link referrals
Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group has gone live with System C’s Medway Proxima patient management system to provide a messaging interface for its GP referrals support service.
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Birmingham reboots central care record
A “proof of concept” trial for a Birmingham central care record is underway, following an overhaul of the troubled project.
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Enter the CCG: Dear Santa
Pity Dr John Lockley. Three years ago, he started working for a clinical commissioning group, where the doctors struggle to speak fluent management and the managers struggle with basic doctor. What both sides need for Christmas is a Babel Fish…
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Enter the CCG has a watercooler moment
Dr John Lockley wonders why modern, digital communications so often fail to, well, communicate. They lack the watercooler moment, he concludes; and people need to remember this.
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Testing times for Epic at Cambridge
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was forced to declare a “major incident” after its new electronic patient record became unstable a week after go-live; and is still dealing with pathology issues.
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Enter the CCG wrestles with the wrong sort of detail
John Lockley has stress added to his holiday by a badly designed online check-in system; but that’s nothing to what the NHS inflicts on some of its users.
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Four care.data pathfinders chosen
Clinical commissioning groups in Leeds, Blackburn, Somerset and West Hampshire have been selected as pathfinders for the care.data programme.
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