DH publishes EPS release two statutory directions
The Department of Health has published statutory directions for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service, which it hopes will start to go live in early 2009. The directions mean GP practices in the 17 early adopter PCTs can use the business processes introduced in release two including issuing prescriptions with electronic signatures, electronic cancellation […]
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CSW Health goes into administration
Health IT firm CSW Group Ltd, the owners of CSW Health, the Oxford-based specialist in XML-based software applications, has been placed into administration. The development leaves the future support of a system used by ten London primary care trusts to monitor child vaccinations unclear. It also appears to throw a spanner into plans to develop […]
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Child immunisation software ‘creating risks’
The interim child health system in London is creating risks to the effective running of the childhood immunisation programme, according to PCTs.
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Wirral PCT faces local data privacy backlash
Wirral Primary Care Trust has delayed plans to introduce a telephone support service provided by a US contractor, after a local outcry at plans to transfer extracts from patient records to a private company. The proposed new health coaching service, called ‘Wirral Keep Well’, provided by Health Dialog UK, that provides targeted phone advice and […]
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Doctors complain about rating website
Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month to enable patients to post comments about individual GPs and patients. However doctors have complained that the site is in breach of the Data Protection Act by including their names on its database and refusing […]
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Mid-Yorkshire earns £80,000 from 0844 number
A hospital trust has revealed that it has made more than £80,000 from use of a 0844 telephone number over the last two years. The Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals Trust was forced to publish its income from the revenue-sharing telephone number following a Freedom of information request made by its local newspaper. The income has been condemned […]
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Wales extends use of emergency care record
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has announced that it is to pilot an extension of the emergency care record, officially titled the Individual Health Record (IHR), to include use in a hospital medical admissions units. From next week, Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust, who piloted the initial system, will test the expanded component in […]
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Public favour ‘Full Monty’ on NHS Choices
More than 5000 people have voted ten to one in favour of NHS Choices going for the Full Monty on its body maps
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DH telecare demonstrator trials to start work
Small scale trials for the Department of Health’s Whole System Long Term Conditions Demonstrator Programme are to begin in the New Year, ahead of the full implementation in the spring. The two year programme will officially start in April 2008 but the three selected areas, Newham, Cornwall and Kent, will begin testing the concepts involved […]
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Immediate NHS data security review ordered
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has written to all NHS trust chief executives instructing them to immediately review and tighten their information governance and data transfer arrangements. The 4 December letter requires trusts to urgently re-examine the arrangements and policies local trusts have for securing data in transit. Trusts are told to urgently buy-in additional […]
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