discharge summaries

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22 July 2008

SCR could hold ‘end of life’ plans

The Summary Care Record (SCR) could be used to share end of life care plans and resuscitation details, according to
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7 January 2008

Discharge letter targets will create two-tier care

The NHS Alliance claims government targets for discharge letters will create a two tier system on a critical patient safety
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9 October 2007

Stoke Mandeville taps into spinal software

Staff at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital will be able to keep track of all records
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29 March 2007

E-discharge summaries needed, says GPs

GPs have called for better uptake of electronic discharge summaries to overcome the severe delays and quality issues that many
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5 March 2007

Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out

Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly
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2 August 2006

Weston goes live with Cerner

Weston Area Health NHS Trust has become to the second NHS trust in the South of England to begin to
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10 May 2006

GPs receive summaries for discharged stroke patients

 GPs are to receive specialised electronic discharge summaries for stroke patients treated in Manchester Royal Infirmary, thanks to templates developed
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20 March 2006

PCTs start transferring patient records by CD

Practices from two primary care trusts in Hertfordshire are about to start transferring patients records on CD, ahead of the
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8 February 2006

Manchester hospitals link up with GPs

Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically
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10 January 2006

Mixed feelings from GPs in new survey on NPfIT

A new survey of GPs shows a widespread dislike of Choose and Book, but optimism that the National Programme for
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