Sunderland Royal Hospital rolls out digital portering
Following a successful trial in its radiology department, Sunderland Royal Hospital has now rolled out digital portering task management software.
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New website to compare social services
A new website designed to help people examine how their local social services are performing, has gone live today.
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Power to the People
Paul Hodgkin, the chief executive of Patient Opinion, says the NHS has turned Henry Ford’s old adage into “you can have any treatment you want, as long as it’s NICE” – but the web is making this kind of thinking utterly redundant.
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Power to the people
Dr Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, wonders why policy makers are obsessed with choice, when patients seem to want voice.
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Power to the people?
Will the information revolution drive choice and quality in the NHS? Fiona Barr weighs up the evidence.
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More doubt cast on impact of info
Presenting high quality data to patients is unlikely to directly drive improvements in the quality of care, according to a paper in the BMJ.
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King’s Fund urges caution on choice
The government should be cautious about patients’ ability to make use of information to choose hospitals, the King’s Fund has warned.
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Making patient control the goal
Patient control of records is the government’s stated goal. Fiona Barr teases out the challenges ahead.
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Connelly says patients will have control
The NHS director general of informatics has confirmed that the government plans to provide patients with the ability to ‘control’ who can access to their electronic records, rather than views or summaries.
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Lord Darzi launches NHS ratings app
Former health minister Professor Lord Ara Darzi has launched an iPhone app that allows users to rate NHS services and create a basic medical record they can share with health professionals.
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