Chester aims at discharge summary target
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has introduced software from Medisec to meet NHS targets for the delivery of discharge summaries. The system allows the trust to know when clinical correspondence has been delivered to GPs, helping it to meet targets in the NHS standard contract. This says that trusts must deliver discharge summaries to […]
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What makes a winning team?
The Countess of Chester Hospital team won the Acute Care ICT Team of the Year in the BT e-Health Insider Awards last year. Linda Davidson reports.
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Cheers and tears at BT e-Health Insider Awards
Winners announced in BT e-Health Insider Awards
Awards for some of the UK?s most outstanding health IT projects and people were announced at the gala BT e-Health Awards ceremony in London last night.
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First go live with Ardentia 18 week wait tool
Business intelligence specialists, Ardentia, have completed their first full go-live of the Pathway Manager 18 week wait monitoring tool, and have announced a further two orders from NHS trusts. Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is the first to have deployed the new Pathway Manager package, which was developed with Microsoft, and pools together reporting data […]
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E-referral system aims to cut discharge delays
An electronic e-referral system that helps cut discharge delays has been extended to cover patients moving from the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire to the care of Flintshire Social Services, North Wales. The new link will enable nurses at the hospital to inform Flintshire staff round-the-clock about patients being referred for social care. Previously […]
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NHS trusts urged to rethink mobile policies
NHS trusts are being urged to rethink their policies on mobile phone use, due to public concerns over the high cost of bedside telephone services, such as those provided by Patientline and Premier The call comes from Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Forums, which argues that patients and the public should be offered the choice […]
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PACS roll-out stalls in NW and West Midlands
The roll-out programme for PACS in the North West and West Midlands of England by CSC looks in danger of stalling. Despite assurances from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), as recently as two weeks ago, that initial implementations will begin before the end of December 2005, E-Health Insider has confirmed that none of the four […]
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Liverpool trust rejects delayed PACS
A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of a Connecting for Health (CfH) Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), due to delays and technical problems with the system. Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust told E-Health Insider that it had taken […]
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Chester to survey patients on outcomes
The Countess of Chester NHS Trust has signed up to a patient reported outcomes programme run by analytical benchmarking company, CHKS. The hospital has joined the programme in order to listen to patients’ views on the treatment it delivers, and use responses to improve processes and quality of care. Data will be used to help […]
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