NHS IOW cuts costs with ScriptSwitch
NHS Isle of Wight says it has cut its prescribing costs to more than 9% below the national average through the use of the ScriptSwitch prescribing advice tool. ScriptSwitch was installed in all the practices on the island in 2007. The primary care trust estimates annual prescribing spend is now £3m-£5m lower than if no action […]
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Funding forecast is colder than ever
The NHS would have to make historically unprecedented productivity gains to close the gap between its likely funding after 2011 and the Wanless projections of its future spending needs. According to a report by the King’s Fund and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the health service would need to make gains of between 3.4% and […]
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Scotland delivers e-prescription service
Scotland has announced that it has become the first country in the UK to deliver an electronic prescription service, with more than 90% of prescriptions now submitted electronically. Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon said the electronic Acute Medication Service (eAMS) was the first national system of its kind to go live anywhere in the UK […]
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Money, money, money
The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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CfH jigsaw still ‘missing pieces’
The NHS IT programme is a jigsaw “still missing pieces” that need “to be found and put in place”.
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Burnham wants ‘health service fit for the digital age’
New health secretary Andy Burnham has said that despite the NHS’ coming financial problems, he still wants to see a health service fit for the digital age. Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference in Liverpool this morning, Burnham insisted that the NHS still had space to focus on reshaping its services focus on quality and […]
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Map of Medicine use cuts poor referrals
Use of Map of Medicine in primary care has led to a significant reduction in inadequate referrals from GPs, according to a new study.
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BMA leader calls for NPfIT to be scrapped
One of the leaders of the British Medical Association has described the NHS IT programme as “the worst case of planning blight across the NHS” and called for it to be ended.
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Cerner UK announces redundancies
Cerner has announced a round of redundancies of UK staff, based on the sharply reduced number of implementations it now expects to deliver.
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Trafford chooses SRC for digital dictation
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has announced it is deploying a trust wide digital dictation solution from SRC, based on WinScribe digital dication technology. Vincent Doyle, project leader at the trust said: “SRC is providing us with a platform that has the capability to streamline document creation processes now and in the future, in line with our own […]
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