Fracture risk tool built using QResearch
A score to predict the risk of patients suffering fractures due to osteoporosis has been developed using the QResearch database. The fracture risk algorithm, QFractureScores, can be used by clinicians and patients to calculate an individual’s percentage risk of an osteoporotic fracture over the next ten years, allowing early interventions to take place according to […]
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West Dorset improves Down programme
The Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled-out a maternity solution from GE Healthcare to provide a vigorous Down Syndrome programme for women in West Dorset. The trust has joined forces with Health Net Connections (HCN), the UK distributor for GE Healthcare’s Viewpoint and Trium CTG, to roll the solution out across four sites, including […]
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Dr Maureen Baker, Caldicott Guardian for NHS Connecting for Health, outlines new guidance on the use of the Personal Demographics Service.
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Unite calls for better IT training
Health visitors believe they are not getting enough IT training on their local electronic patient record systems, according to a union survey. A poll of 530 health visitors and school nurses conducted by Unite/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association found that 310 had access to local electronic patient record and 92% of those had received […]
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ContactPoint roll out confirmed
The national roll-out of the children’s database ContactPoint is to go ahead from later this month, the government has announced. The Department for Children, Schools and Families said the national rollout of ContactPoint was on track and that practitioners across England could start to be trained and to access the system from late October. The […]
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Health promotion portal launched
A primary care IT manager has set up a website to make it easier for GP practices to run health awareness campaigns. The site, Healthcarepromotions.co.uk, provides more than 500 links to posters, leaflets and factsheets on more than 60 health areas and access to all the resources on the site is free of charge. James […]
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Time changes consultations
The proportion of primary care consultations conducted by telephone has trebled over the past 14 years, according to the largest ever study of trends in consultation rates. In 1995, 3% of GP practice consultations were conducted over the telephone; but by the end of 2008 the figure had risen to 12%. At the same time, consultations […]
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EU Hospital IT database launched
A German company, Hospital IT Network, has launched an online European e-health industry research database that offers detailed profiles of more than 1,500 hospital IT suppliers across Europe. The online service offers customers profiles of the main hospital system vendors. Uwe Buddrus, managing director hospital-it.net, told E-Health Europe that he believes that no other website […]
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT
The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour’s central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited patient record and clinical systems.
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