Liverpool hospitals praised for “get well soon” e-mails
A scheme which enables friends and relatives to send e-mail greetings to in-patients in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals has been praised by health minister, John Hutton. Hutton described the email service as an “innovative scheme” during his address to a conference in Birmingham this week about the NHS information portal, www.nhs.uk. He […]
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Nhs.uk can take on burden of information requests
Trusts that deliver up-to-date, accurate data to www.nhs.uk will be able increasingly to shed the burden of answering third party requests for information about their services and refer them on to the national NHS information portal. Programme manager for the award winning portal, Judy Aldred, told E-Health Insider that local organisations often receive requests for […]
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Casualty Plus opens with TrakHealth
To contact Casualty Plus, call 08456 777 999. E-Health Insider is a news organisation and is not connected to Casualty Plus. London’s private ‘casualty’ centre, launched this month by Casualty Plus, incorporates a fully integrated electronic clinical and administration system supplied by Australian health IT supplier, TrakHealth. The MedTrak system installed at the centre in […]
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Nhs.uk to provide information for Patient Choice
Patients will be encouraged to use the NHS online service, nhs.uk, to gather information about NHS hospitals when they are making choices about treatment. The NHS Information Authority announced this week that the online service had been chosen by the Department of Health as the channel for giving patients the information they need to select […]
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E-Booking presented as a step towards patient-centred NHS
A new £64.5m national contract for e-booking between GP surgeries and acute hospitals in England was presented by the government as a key step towards achieving the aim of offering patients a choice of hospitals. Announcing the contract this week, health secretary, John Reid, said electronic booking was not about “some whizz kids’ obsession with […]
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National Programme to sign first contract
Tomorrow morning Secretary of State for Health John Reid and NHS IT director-general Richard Granger will announce that SchlumbergerSema offering a Cerner solution have been awarded the electronic appointment booking contract for the NHS. E-booking will be the first major supplier contract for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to be let. As previously reported […]
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EDS ‘De-selected’ from E-Booking Contract
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has confirmed that EDS has been deselected from procurement competition for a national electronic appointment booking service. Last Friday E-Health Insider exclusively revealed that EDS was no longer in the bidding for the prestigious e-booking contract, which will be one of the most high-profile elements of the NPfIT and […]
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NN4B Supports New Hearing Test for Babies
The national rollout of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) was launched this week with due praise for its technology devised by the NHS Information Authority, Syntegra and Hays CSG. The NHSIA’s Numbers for Babies (NN4B) service supports the hearing screen for newborns which is generating major improvements in services for babies born with hearing […]
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Full Clinician Involvement Key to Success – Reader Comment
In response to the recent debate in E-Health Insider about whether PDAs or tablet PCs offer the best device to provide to front line clinicians, Sue Wilson head of IM&T (acute services) at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, stresses that it is not the choice of device but involvement of clinicians that counts: I agree […]
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XML Special Focus: e-Booking for GP Special Interest Clinics
Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust (TPCT) faced the common problem of long waiting times for hospital dermatology appointments, but also realised it had an asset in the shape of three local GPs with particular expertise in the specialty. Head of IM&T, Dave Shovlin takes up the story: “The GPs, together with the lead for Dermatology […]
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