Darzi quality indicators published
The Department of Health and the NHS Information Centre have published a list of 232 indicators of high quality care, intended to help clinicians drive up the quality of care they deliver to patients. The publication of the 200 indicators forms the first step in developing measures that will enable clinicians to easily measure the quality of […]
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NHS Evidence launches
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has launched NHS Evidence, an online source of “fast, free, relevant and trustworthy” information for health and social care staff. The new service was promised in the final report of Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review of the NHS, High Quality Care for All and is being promoted as […]
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No National Flu Line until autumn
A telephone and web-based National Flu Line service to offer advice and authorise access to antiviral medicines in the event of a pandemic will not be ready until the autumn, the Department of Health has admitted.
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Money found for NHS innovation
Health minister Lord Darzi has unveiled a package of measures to encourage and spread innovation in the NHS. Speaking at the launch of Innovation for a Healthier Future at the Science Museum in London, Lord Darzi said innovation was “close to my heart” and had the potential to “excite” both staff and patients. “We have […]
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DH launches new vision for PBC
Practice-based commissioners are entitled to receive accurate and timely financial and management data and analysis, according to the Department of Health’s newly released vision for practice-based commissioning. The DH says its vision will mark the start of a new drive to see practice-based commissioning working to its full potential. The document, Clinical commissioning: our vision […]
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Kent GP-led centres pick Adastra
Two GP-led health centres in Kent have chosen software from out-of-hours provider Adastra as their patient management system. The centres in Medway and Swale, run by London-based Dulwich Medical Centre, will use the software to support their seven day a week service, offering scheduled and unscheduled appointments to both registered and unregistered patients. Dulwich Medical […]
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First day of the PROMs
The Department of Health has issued instructions to the NHS on the action that needs to be taken to deliver Patient Reported Outcome Measures from April. The use of PROMs in the health service was first outlined by Lord Darzi in the NHS Next Stage Review. Now commissioners and service providers have been given detailed […]
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MPs cast doubt on Darzi reforms
The future pay of NHS managers should be linked to their data-analysis abilities, according to MPs concerned about the health service’s capacity to implement Lord Darzi’s health service reforms. In a report on the Next Stage Review of the NHS, the House of Commons Health Committee says primary care trusts “lack analytical and planning skills” […]
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Yorkshire Darzi centres use TPP
The first GP-led health centre is using TPP’s SystmOne and 20 more Darzi-style centres will go live with the clinical system, the company has announced. The Hillside Bridge Healthcare Centre in Bradford was opened by health secretary Alan Johnson and will be followed by 151 more open-access centres providing GP services 12 hours a day, […]
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