60 second interview: Jean Roberts
Our latest 60 second interview is with Dr Jean Roberts, an internationally known health informatician.
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Conservatives commission review of NHS IT
The Conservative Party has commissioned an independent review of NHS IT policy to be led by Dr Glyn Hayes.
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Tough at the top
Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy will have plenty on their desks when they take over the top jobs in NHS IT in mid September. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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NHS managers not committed to informatics
Efforts to harness health informatics to improve patient care have been "impeded" by a basic lack of commitment from NHS managers. This is a central message from the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum in its response to the government’s recent Health Informatics Review. The HIF finds much to praise in the report, although it […]
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BJHC goes into liquidation
The company responsible for the annual Healthcare Computing exhibition in Harrogate has gone into liquidation, ending an event that has run for a quarter of a century. BJHC Ltd has run the Healthcare Computing exhibition for the past 25 years alongside the Healthcare Computing conference organised by the British Computer Society’s (BCS) Health Informatics Forum. […]
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GMC says patient confidentiality ‘is absolute’
Patient confidentiality is absolute; patients must give their consent before their data can be used, General Medical Council president, Sir Graeme Catto, said this week. Speaking at the BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group summer conference, Sir Graeme said the insistence on consent was a good thing and would foster the partnership approach with patients. […]
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Your Champion – Dr Mike Bainbridge
Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year 2007, Dr Mike Bainbridge, clinical architect at Connecting for Health.
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BCS launches new NHS IT qualification
A new qualification, NHS ELITE (NHS eLearning IT Essentials), has been launched by the British Computer Society and Department of Health IT agency Connecting for Health. Officially launched at last week’s Healthcare Computing 2008 conference, the new qualification, accredited by the BCS, helps to consolidate the IT skills of NHS staff by offering valuable hands-on […]
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Swindells quits DH ahead of review publication
The Department of Health’s interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department to take up a position with consultancy firm Tribal. The news comes ahead of publication of the Swindells review of NHS Informatics, which was expected to contain criticism of the overall strategic management of information in the NHS. A former […]
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CfH expand ETD course offerings
Connecting for Health has announced two new additions to its Education, Training and Development (ETD) series, to be launched next month. The agency will be introducing the Essential IT Skills (EITS) Programme on 3 March to replace its European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) service, which is due to close on 21 March. The EITS Programme […]
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