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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EHI’s industry round-up 19.02.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers system deployments, new products, and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Wirral goes wireless with Aruba Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a secure wireless network from Aruba Networks at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals. Peter Marsh, technical director of the Wirral Health Informatics […]
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PAC gives NPfIT six months to deliver CRS
The National Programme for IT in the NHS should be given six months to get effective care record systems into acute trusts, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of its acute-care sites. The project, which JAC claims is the largest of its kind in the UK, will see company’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system deployed to cover 1,800 beds and all the […]
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