SCR ‘at tipping point’ with clinicians
The Summary Care Record is approaching 50,000 views per week, according to figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Infrastructure
NHS gets smart with contactless cards
NHS trusts will have access to contactless smartcards, so staff can log into clinical systems on tablet computers, from autumn this year.
Infrastructure
October target for e-discharge
EXCLUSIVE: NHS providers must send discharge summaries to GPs electronically by October this year, NHS England has said.
News
Southern trusts paid £27m tech funding
More than £27 million in central funding has been paid to 19 NHS trusts and organisations as part of the Southern Local Clinical Systems Programme
Clinical Software
Nurse Tech Fund benefits evidence scarce
Evidence of the benefits of many Nursing Technology Fund projects is “scarce”, a report commissioned by NHS England reveals.
Clinical Software
Accenture wins NHSmail as crash reported
The Department of Health has announced that consultancy firm Accenture has won a £60 million contract to provide the new NHSmail service the same week the current system was out of action for several hours.
Infrastructure
HSCIC confident in care.data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is confident that its current communications plans for care.data will be passed by the UK’s data guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott.
News
Pharmacists given access to SCR
Community pharmacists are to be given access to the NHS Summary Care Record, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has announced.
News
Seventeen suppliers sign GPSoC Lot 3
Seventeen suppliers have signed up to provide cross care-setting interoperability services as part of Lot 3 of the GP Systems of Choice contract.
Interoperability
NHS works with SMEs
A group of healthcare and digital experts are working together to help break down barriers between NHS organisations and small technology companies.
News