NHS PHR HealthSpace fails to deliver
Patients have found the government’s personal health record project HealthSpace neither useful nor easy to use and only a tiny percentage have so far signed up for it, according to a study published today.
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NPfIT study urges ‘middle-out’ approach
The largest study of the national roll-out of the NHS Care Records Service to date has concluded that its top down, standardised approach has led to much slower progress than originally envisaged. The study, led by Professor Aziz Sheik from the University of Edinburgh, says the original approach of the National Programme for IT in the […]
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Royal Free builds Cerner checklists
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of checklists and actions for clinicians working with patients with gastro-intestinal bleeding within Cerner Millennium.
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Expert view: Emma Byrne
A member of the UCL team that reviewed the Summary Care Record looks beyond the numbers and behind the headlines at what it found.
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Payments linked to clinical quality
Removing financial incentives for clinical quality can lead to a drop in performance, a study has found.
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EHI’s industry round-up: appointments
This special edition of the EHI industry round-up covers appointments made by major suppliers in the healthcare IT industry and some NHS bodies whose work impacts on it. Dr Mark Ferrar joins GS1 UK board GS1 UK, the global supply chain standards and solutions organisation, has appointed an executive from NHS Connecting for Health to […]
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QoF income falls trigger survey row
GP practices’ achievement on the Quality and Outcomes Framework fell across the UK in the last financial year, costing the average practice in England about £1,800. Newly published figures show GPs in all four UK countries suffered a drop in performance, which has been largely attributed to changes to the patient experience indicators. The figures […]
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Research backs QRISK
The QRISK formula for identifying patients most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease should replace the Framingham risk score in the UK, researchers recommend today. A study published in the BMJ compares the performance of the QRISK and Framingham scores for predicting 10-year cardiovascular disease risk in more than 1m UK patients. It found that, on every […]
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NHS Choices to publish mortality rates
NHS Choices is to start publishing hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios on its website. The government’s flagship health site already publishes generalised mortality rates for heart surgery and operations such as hip and knee surgery. But within the next few weeks, doctors and patients will be able to access much more specific information. The HSMR figures will […]
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