Labour’s O’Brien: NHS safe in our hands
Junior health minister Mike O’Brien has claimed that the NHS is “safe in our hands” and that the government will “focus on quality and innovation” to help it through the financial crunch.
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Reported drug errors increase, says NPSA
The incidence of reported drug errors leading to avoidable deaths and patient harm is on the increase, according to a new National Patient Safety Agency report.
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Bradford plans Lorenzo expansion
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is due to take Lorenzo live in a ward environment in the middle of September. The trust initially deployed the electronic patient record system from iSoft in a weekly joint replacement clinic in April. In a statement for E-Health Insider, the trust said: “The use of Lorenzo in our […]
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Thousands of Lab samples ‘mislabelled’
Tens of thousands of clinical samples are being wrongly labelled when they arrived at NHS pathology laboratories, an investigation has found. The survey of every NHS trusts, to which 120 replied, found 365,608 specimens were mislabelled before they arrived at laboratories. In addition, a further 11,712 specimens were incorrectly labelled by lab staff, according to […]
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In defence of the Spine
Ewan Davis surprises himself by setting out the case in defence of the NHS Spine. He argues that if we didn’t have it, we’d have to invent it.
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BlackBerry transplant system trialled
Liver surgeons and transplant coordinators at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust have started using BlackBerrys to help to determine suitable donor recipients from transplant waiting lists.
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Caring, sharing
Individual hospitals have PACS in place: but whatever happened to image sharing? Linda Davidson and Daloni Carlisle investigate.
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Industry round-up 09.07.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments, observed trends and other news from leading healthcare IT suppliers. South Manchester utilises Hornbill’s Supportworks The University of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has applied Hornbill’s Supportworks ITSM service management software to manage the NHS Registration Authority smart card system that it is introducing […]
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Mid Yorks digitises 1.9m records
Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust has begun converting more than 1.9m patient records into digital files as part of a £2.3m contract with the EDM Group. The project, which will run for two years, will see the trust convert around 72m sheets of paper by scanning and turning them into tif or pdf format. At […]
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Docs call for clinical review of NPfIT
The British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting has called for a clinically led review of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and for more action to protect patient privacy.
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