Hospitals still failing on wristbands
Several major hospitals are failing to generate and print standardised wristbands for their patients.
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Coding for Success makes slow progress
A review of the impact of a report calling for the wider use of coding and tracking technologies in the NHS has concluded that “overall progress has been a little slower than expected.”
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Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011
The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that do not comply by July 2011 to be penalised. An advanced notification of a new information standard has been sent out by the ISB that would define the procedures necessary to add barcodes to patient wristbands […]
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EU study uses RFID to track medicine
The BRIDGE (Building Radio Frequency IDentification for the Global Environment) project has successfully concluded its three year initiative to research, develop and demonstrate the benefits of RFID. The €7.5m project involved implementing and trialling a full drug product tracking system using the EPC global network for supply-chain data collection and GS1 DataMatrix symbology. The DataMatrix […]
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MPs back technology for patient safety
MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve patient safety are working or not. In a report concluding its inquiry into patient safety, the House of Commons Health Committee says “judging the overall effectiveness of patient safety policy is made difficult because of […]
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Bristol wristbands use GS1 coding
NHS trust improves patient safety by adopting national coding standards for its new printed wristbands.
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NPSA Never Events policy welcomed
A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing on eight types of incident that can easily be prevented. Jeremy Turbervill, head of sales for Safe Patient Systems, said it was pleased the National Patient Safety Agency had issued the Never Events policy, which […]
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Procurement blocks innovation: report
The Policy Exchange has attacked the government for not doing enough to drive innovation in the NHS and called for a shake-up of financial incentives and procurement processes to drive new technologies and working practices into the service. The right-leaning think-tank says that as things stand, new drugs, devices and other technologies “inch” their way […]
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GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’
Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to ‘scan and save’.
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Eighty trusts sign up to ‘scan and save’
The GS1 asset tracking technology in use. Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that almost eighty NHS trusts across England have signed up for to its ‘scan and save’ initiative for automatically tracking and tracing sterile surgical instruments. The wireless wristband and barcode-based technologies allows hospitals to trace the complete life […]
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