National children’s database gets go-ahead
The government has given the go-ahead for the creation of an electronic information sharing index containing information on all children aged 0 to 18 in England. The IS (information sharing) Index was launched by Beverley Hughes, children’s minister, who said that the aim was for the database to be rolled out by the end of […]
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CfH to examine health and social care links
Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be considered by Connecting for Health this month, according to Community Care magazine. CfH’s national board is due to consider proposals on how a sub-group of the Care Record Development Board may look at linking records […]
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CfH approaches 2,000th deployment
Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of the beginning of September. The figure represents an increase of over 800 deployments since the beginning of August, reaching a grand total of 1,864. However, a closer reading of the figures reveals that almost all […]
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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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Health professionals urged to share child information
Health professionals should lower the threshold at which they seek information from other agencies over concerns about children and young people, according to new draft government guidance. The cross government guidance, which has been published in the wake of public concerns over child protection issues and the Laming Enquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie, […]
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IT may solve feedback problems on cancer referrals
A study published in the European Journal of Cancer Care about feedback given to GPs who refer patients with ovarian cancer has found that GPs can wait over a month for feedback about their patients, and would be better served by a central electronic record or even faxes. A selection of GPs in Cambridgeshire expressed concern that they […]
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Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed
Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the NHS in England by the beginning of August. The headline figure appears, however, to be bolstered by the application of a very broad definition of deployment — including web-based applications and taking over the hosting of […]
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Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’
The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used by individual children must be made to fit with the national programme for IT, the government has said. The government response to a consultation on information sharing databases – also known as child indexes – carried […]
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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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Cardiff begins roll-out of EHRs for community nurses
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust has announced that it is rolling out an integrated electronic health record for community nursing and mental health with the intention of creating a fully integrated electronic health record. The contract with in4tek to use its PARIS system was signed in November 2004. Details of the system, which will be […]
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