NHS Choices launches maternity guide
The first NHS online maternity guide has been launched by the Department of Health aiming to offer mothers and fathers-to-be information on pregnancy and birth. The new ‘Pregnancy Care Planner’ has been published on the NHS Choices website, and contains the latest comprehensive advice on all aspects of pregnancy, from getting pregnant, early pregnancy, the […]
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NHS Direct wins award for prescription pilot
NHS Direct’s Evelina Children’s Hospital information prescription pilot project has been awarded the 2008 Ask About Medicines Award for ‘Excellence in improving communication between healthcare professionals and patients or medicine users’. The Evelina Children’s Hospital project was designed to start changing the situation of a lack of information around medicines prescribed to children, and to […]
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Latest BNFC interfaces with NHS dm+d
The new online edition of the latest BNF for Children – BNFC 2008 – will include a new interface to the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d). The BNF says this is intended to provide healthcare professionals with seamless access to BNFC content on the internet using NHS dm+d codes, “helping them to make […]
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DH funds collaborative ICT research
Information and Communications technology features in five of the seven partnerships which are receiving a share of the £64m research grant for studies looking at major conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Health Research and Care sites were announced by health minister, Dawn Primarolo, […]
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GPs call for halt to centrally-held patient records
GP representatives must ensure that a halt is put to the development of centrally-held patient records, this year’s local medical committees’ conference will hear. The conference, to be held next month, is to debate a motion calling on the BMA’s General Practitioner Committee (GPC) to stop the development of centrally-held records and to promote a […]
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Sunderland Teaching PCT signs CareNotes
Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust has signed a new deal to deploy CareNotes as the care record system for its community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The PCT has been using Strand Technology’s CareNotes Substance Misuse since August 2006, and will introduce CareNotes CAMHS specific software initially for 30 users later this month. […]
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NHS chief execs may be accountable for data loss
The Information Commissioner has backed proposals by cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell to hold senior Whitehall figures and NHS chief executives personally responsible if their department or trust loses or mishandles personal information. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London last Tuesday, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said he has seen a draft of O’Donnell’s report […]
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Over 10 NHS security breaches in last 6 months
The NHS has reported more than ten data security breaches to the Information Commissioner in the six months since the lost of 25m child benefit records. The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has revealed that his office has been notified of almost 100 data breaches by public, private and third sector organisations since the security breach […]
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Most GP systems will require security upgrades
The majority of GP clinical IT systems will not meet the Department of Health’s new data security requirements for transfer and storage of patient data and PCTs will need to fund the costs of extra encryption, according to Connecting for Health. CfH’s programme director for GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC), Kemi Adenubi, has written to […]
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CSC plans to integrate SystmOne into Lorenzo
Local service provider CSC is planning to integrate TPP’s SystmOne with the strategic software Lorenzo,currently being developed by iSoft. The LSP for the North, Midlands and East region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has already released details of its plans to deploy Lorenzo in four phases between 2008 and 2012, creating a […]
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