Brown promises to unlock NHS data
Gordon Brown has promised to “radically open up data and public information.” Launching the ‘Putting the frontline first: smarter government’ report, Brown said “great detail” about how hospitals perform would be put online during 2010. He said the information would “encourage feedback and dialogue between professional and citizen” and help “to benchmark the best and […]
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Patients to text feedback on hospitals
NHS Choices has launched a pilot project to enable patients to text their feedback on hospitals to the website. The SMS service is being trialled with the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust in Harlow, Essex and means that patients who text their feedback will see their comments appear on the NHS Choices website. The Department […]
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Procurements for South complete by April
The Department of Health’s chief information officer, Christine Connelly, has said she wants procurements for systems in the South to begin in January, and be completed by the beginning of April 2010.
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Toolkit to nail interoperability – Jones
The new NHS interoperability toolkit has the potential to drive down the cost of interoperability and innovation, according to the Department of Health’s chief technology officer.
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Nottingham extends cancer solution
Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust has announced it will deploy a customised reporting solution across 15 of its specialist tumour departments. The trust is extending its CNodes reporting solution to give it greater visibility of the patient pathway from initial referral to eventual outcome. The trust will continue to use reporting software from business intelligence […]
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GP ratings site criticised by rival
The GP practice rating service launched by NHS Choices received 1,600 comments in its first 24 hours of operation, according to the Department of Health. A DH spokesperson told EHI Primary Care that about 80% of the comments received were positive and said it would continue to monitor the number and type of comments made. […]
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GP ratings launched on NHS Choices
The Department of Health has launched a controversial online rating service to let patients rate and compare GP practices.
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ContactPoint roll out confirmed
The national roll-out of the children’s database ContactPoint is to go ahead from later this month, the government has announced. The Department for Children, Schools and Families said the national rollout of ContactPoint was on track and that practitioners across England could start to be trained and to access the system from late October. The […]
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Burnham: publish staff satisfaction data
Health secretary Andy Burnham has announced plans to publish data on staff satisfaction across the NHS. In his first major public speech since his appointment in June, Burnham said there needed to be “a better focus on staff satisfaction” and that this could be achieved by “measuring staff satisfaction more systematically.” Speaking at the King’s […]
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