BNF for Children launches with online version
A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version www.bnfc.nhs.uk free of charge to anyone in England. Its publishers hope NHS staff in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland will also soon have access. The health departments in all four countries have arranged for doctors […]
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National Knowledge Service aims high
Building a centralised electronic National Knowledge Service, that will deliver focused clinical knowledge to clinicians when they need it, has become the key aim of NHS Connecting for Health’s (CfH) new Knowledge, Process and Safety Directorate. The National Knowledge Service (NKS) will seek to ensure "that all decisions are based not only the best current […]
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Baby steps
E-Health Insider Primary Care reports on two pilot initiatives in sharing of children’s details between local authority and health service professionals.
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Northampton implements McKesson’s Child Plus
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust has gone live with a new child health system supplied by McKesson that will provide detailed electronic health record for children. McKesson’s web-based CarePlus solution went live at the trust at the end of 2004. It replaces the old ‘green-screen’ Swift child health system also supplied by McKesson. The new […]
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Accenture names Phoenix as primary care supplier
Accenture has announced that it has signed agreements with Microsoft, Liquidlogic and The Phoenix Partnership to provide technology solutions for the North-east and Eastern regions of English NHS, under the National Programme for IT. Accenture is the local service provider for the North-east and Eastern regions, two of the five English NHS regions covered by […]
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Big Brother alive and well at Heathcare Computing
E-Health Insider comment from Jon Hoeksma “I just had a call from the National Programme [for IT] on what I could say. I looked at my notes and realised I couldn’t say anything.” This was the quote from the Healthcare Computing 2004 conference that perhaps best summed up the national programme’s very strange approach to […]
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Sheffield Children’s Trust prepares for NCRS
Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust has chosen a Stalis CareXML enterprise-wide patient data respository as the foundation for integrating its patient-based IT systems and moving towards the NHS Care Record Service (NCRS). An announcement from Stalis said that the move will help the trust to integrate data from a number of legacy systems around the organisation, […]
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In Practice Systems and in4tek Partner to Deliver ICRS
In Practice Systems and in4tek have formed a partnership in order to jointly provide an integrated PCT/StHA solution to meet the expanding needs of the NHS National Programme “Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS”. The two companies say that the new partnership will enable them to offer a solution able to address all aspects of […]
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NHS ‘Numbers for Babies’ Goes Live
A new computerised ‘numbers for babies’ system went live across the NHS at midnight on 29 October, marking a significant step towards the goal of electronic patient records. Starting today all babies born in England and Wales are to be issued with an NHS number at birth, helping to ensure that personal records are consistent […]
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IT Strategy – You Have Your Say
E-Health Insider’s request for fantasy IT strategies for the NHS struck a chord with many of you who sent in a range of suggestions over the course of the week. A common theme was the feeling that any new IT strategy must have a strong thread of cultural change and people management, and that a […]
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