Queen’s speech: Government to ‘lay foundations’ for more integrated care
Reiterating plans to embed Integrated Care Systems in law the Queen introduced the Health and Care Bill which aims to embrace innovation in the NHS.
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CoWs to bust bureaucracy
Junior doctors spend 66% of their time accessing or updating patient notes, and computers on wheels reduce ward round times, a report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre has found.
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HSCIC responsible for slow progress
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is significantly responsible for the “painfully slow” progress of interoperability in the NHS, the chair of the organisation has said.
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NHS data ‘useful but hard to collect’
Clinicians think that two thirds of data collections in the NHS are useful and relevant to patient care, but a common dataset and automation of data collection is still needed, according to a report by the NHS Confederation.
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HSCIC outlines bureaucracy busting plans
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will release a report on reducing the burden of data collection for the NHS this month.
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Bureaucracy busters set to work on NHS
A bureaucracy busting campaign is being launched to reduce the burden of data collection for the NHS.
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EHI interview: Mike Farrar
The chief executive of the NHS Confederation wants the NHS to get to grips with IT and information; fast. He talks to Lyn Whitfield.
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