Tim Kelsey at E-Health Insider Live ’09
Tim Kelsey, chair of Dr Foster Intelligence, and a noted champion of the need for the state to hold and use personal data, has been announced as a keynote speaker at E-Health Insider Live ‘09.
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KPMG to provide digital strategy for NHS
The Department of Health has commissioned management consultants KPMG to report on a vision for a digital strategy for the NHS.
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Barts still stuck on 18-week waits
Barts and the London NHS Trust is still unable to report on the national 18-week referral to treatment time target and other key activity targets, four months after its reporting system was suspended. The trust suspended reporting on 18-week RTT waits in March and doesn’t expect to be able to resume until September. It has also […]
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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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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices
Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the bid to run the DH flagship site, today launched Drfosterhealth.co.uk, which brings together information from its consumer guides to hospitals, consultants, birth and complementary therapists. The website aims to be “the complete online medical guide […]
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Hospitals to assess satisfaction ‘in real time’
Health secretary Alan Johnson told the Labour Party conference yesterday that he wants to see NHS trusts collecting “immediate feedback” from patients on their experience of care. The Mirror newspaper was briefed that this might mean hospitals giving patients PDAs. However, the Department of Health could only say that trusts might “opt” to use hand-held […]
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NHS Choices selects Capita as preferred bidder
Capita has been announced as the preferred bidder to deliver NHS Choices for the next three years.
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NHS Choices £80m contract award imminent
The Department of Health is this week expected to announce the winner of the three-year, £80m contract to run NHS Choices, the patient portal for health service. Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, said at a news conference last Thursday, 10 July, that an announcement of the NHS Choices contract was “due […]
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E-Health Insider award winner blazes trail for NHS
Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust won the 2007 BT e-Health Insider award for Excellence in Health Information Management.
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