BT e-Health Insider Awards ’07 judges appointed
Judges for the BT e-Health Insider Awards ’07 have been appointed resulting in a line-up that includes distinguished IT professionals and clinicians with an interest in health informatics. Entry for the awards is open now and the six categories offer opportunities for everyone involved in healthcare IT from the frontline to the back office to […]
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Delays continue on NPfIT local ownership programme
A review is underway to establish new priorities and additional requirements for the NHS National Programme for IT Local Ownership Programme (NLOP) with the results due to be reported to the NHS Management Board in June, E-Health Insider has learned. The review – known as the Butler Review – is being carried out to identify […]
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Safety now number one priority for CfH
Professor Michael Thick, the chief clinical officer for Connecting for Health, explains how the agency has made patient safety its number one concern.
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Mental health and midwifery leads to join CfH team
Connecting for Health is stepping up its clinical engagement drive with the appointment of new clinical leads for midwifery and mental health nursing and a planned mass distribution of key information about IT modernisation to nurses. Funding for the new clinical leads was announced yesterday (1 May) by the Department of Health’s chief nursing officer, Chris […]
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Patient Level Costing software launched
Northgate Information Solutions and the Public Sector Costing Associates Limited have formed a new partnership to deliver a software and consultancy package for Patient Level Costing. Patient Level Costing is a change in costing methodology to a bottom up approach which will allow for improved clinical engagement by discussing actual patients rather than averages, and […]
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BT to create London PACS archive by September
Having deployed Picture Archiving and Communications Systems to all 23 trusts in London by the end of last month, BT is now beginning work on a medical imaging archive which will be able to store and access images from across the cluster into one central image repository. The local service provider to the London cluster has […]
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Mayday sees PACS benefits
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust was one of the first sites in London to get BT’s Philips PACS system in London. EHI’s Joe Fernandez visited the trust to find out the difference it’s made to patient care.
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IT delays contribute to NHS trust deficits
Delays in implementing the National Programme for IT are listed by the influential Commons public accounts committee today as a factor leading to some NHS trusts plunging into the red. The PAC’s inquiry into financial management in the NHS found that in 2005/06 14 trusts asked the Department of Health for money to cover “costs incurred as a result […]
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Hunt spells out local ownership moves
Health minister, Lord Hunt, who was responsible for setting up the National Programme for IT, has defended its strongly centralised initial approach but made plain that the future lies with local ownership. Speaking to the opening session of the Healthcare Computing 2007 conference in Harrogate, Lord Hunt, back at the Department of Health after a […]
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Winchester says Millennium becoming ‘more robust’
The delays in implementation of the Cerner Millenium patient administration system have helped to make the system ‘fit for purpose and more robust’, according to the IT lead at Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust. The Mid Hampshire Deployment Family, consisting of three trusts: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, part of Hampshire Partnership Trust and […]
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