E-mail mentoring to help budding nurses
The University of East Anglia has set up an e-mail mentoring programme to help 14-15 year-olds from deprived backgrounds who have expressed an interest in entering nursing and other health professions realise their dreams. Students from UEA’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, along with students from the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice and […]
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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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Image-sharing over web helps child burn patients
Two west London hospitals, St Mary’s Paediatric A&E, Paddington, and Chelsea & Westminister’s specialist burns unit, have developed an electronic image-sharing link that replaces the old system of doctors describing patients’ injuries over the phone. A large JPEG of the patient’s injury is taken over a digital camera and uploaded to the software. The image […]
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Parents are ‘cautious’ internet users
Parents use the internet cautiously to find out about their children’s health problems and electronic information does not undermine their confidence in health professionals, according to research from York University. The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, was based on an analysis of existing health resources available on the internet for childhood […]
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NPfIT failing to engage with social care providers
Social services directors have written to NHS chief executive, Sir Nigel Crisp, pointing out that there is no structure for engaging social care services in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The letter said that social care input had been sought only on an ad hoc basis. David Johnstone, Director of Social Services for Devon, […]
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Hanon Partners to Launch Virtual Child Protection
Hanon Solutions Ltd, the Scottish data integration specialist, has announced a new partnership to offer local authorities a solution to the Department of Health’s Identification, Referral & Tracking (IRT) initiative. The off-the-shelf package is designed to help councils ensure that information relating to children at risk is securely shared between relevant organisations. The need to […]
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