DH’s lead on acute choice leaves
The NHS chief information officer leading work on offering acute trusts in the South a choice of IT systems has left the Department of Health for a new job. John-Jo Campbell, the chief information officer at NHS South Central SHA, had been seconded to the DH’s Informatics Directorate by director general of informatics Christine Connelly. […]
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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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NHS Direct Wales ‘needs new direction’
NHS Direct Wales provides a valuable service but needs to be better integrated into the wider unscheduled care system, according to the Welsh Audit Office. A report from the Auditor General found that the health helpline is viewed as something separate to the unscheduled care system, instead of as a core part of it. It […]
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EHI’s industry round up 11.09.2009
This edition of E-Health Insider’s industry round-up covers partnerships and new product launches in the healthcare IT market and deployments in the NHS.
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Arctic blast
A think-tank recently ranked its funding forecasts for the NHS from ‘tepid’ to ‘arctic.’ Sarah Bruce asks what that will mean for healthcare IT.
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Labour’s O’Brien: NHS safe in our hands
Junior health minister Mike O’Brien has claimed that the NHS is “safe in our hands” and that the government will “focus on quality and innovation” to help it through the financial crunch.
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HIS market ‘near saturation’: Frost
The Hospital Information Systems Market in Europe is reaching saturation point and vendors will need to find new revenue streams in the future, analyst Frost and Sullivan has concluded. Its latest research says that most hospitals in Europe now have some kind of information in place, even if very few have “fully integrated and functional […]
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Personal view: Tim Benson
Standards guru Tim Benson argues that understanding health interoperability, HL7 and SNOMED CT will become increasingly important in this taster of his new book.
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Twitter ‘weloveNHS’ campaign grows
Thousands of people have joined the ‘welovetheNHS’ campaign on Twitter to show their backing for England’s National Health Service. The campaign was launched to defend the service after US Republicans labeled it “evil” and “Orwellian” in a bid to discredit Barack Obama’s planned healthcare reforms, which could include a Federal government insurance scheme. Tens of […]
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Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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