KPMG to provide digital strategy for NHS
The Department of Health has commissioned management consultants KPMG to report on a vision for a digital strategy for the NHS.
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Surgical data reduces mortality
A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have dropped dramatically. The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery studied 400,000 operations performed over the past five years, and found that death rates in coronary artery surgery fell by 21% and in aortic valve replacement operations by […]
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Mid Yorks digitises 1.9m records
Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust has begun converting more than 1.9m patient records into digital files as part of a £2.3m contract with the EDM Group. The project, which will run for two years, will see the trust convert around 72m sheets of paper by scanning and turning them into tif or pdf format. At […]
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Quality counts
The Quality and Outcomes Research Unit at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust was the overall winner in last year’s BT E-Health Insider awards. Daloni Carlisle finds out why.
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Money, money, money
The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Mind that child
Dr David Low, consultant paediatrician and national clinical lead for paediatrics and child health at NHS Connecting for Health, discusses the importance of child records.
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Audit Scotland revisits meds management
Scotland’s national audit body has urged the Scottish Government to encourage health boards to take up a national Hospital Electronic Prescribing Medicines Administration system as soon as one is available. In its latest report, Audit Scotland says the NHS in Scotland has improved the management of medicines in hospitals since it last examined the subject […]
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Audit Commission criticises data quality
A report published by the Audit Commission has concluded that data quality is still “often not what it needs to be to meet the demands now being placed upon it.” The report, Figures You Can Trust: Data Quality in the NHS, says that although there have been some improvements since its 2004 report on Data […]
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Southend secures email with Proofpoint
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out a secure email solution from Proofpoint across its 2,500 PCs. The move follows a review of IT in May 2008, which showed the trust needed to improve its email security to meet Department of Health guidelines introduced as a result of data leaks in the NHS. […]
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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