Recruiting digital jobs for NHS ‘my biggest challenge’ says Simon Bolton
NHS Digital’s Simon Bolton has told the Health and Social Care Committee that getting the right digital skills into the NHS is his “biggest challenge.”
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Mid Staffs report demands stats overhaul
An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an “impeccably independent and transparent source” to be set up to produce comparative statistics for the NHS.
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BT Health boss to lead Oxford Radcliffe
Sir Jonathan Michael, managing director of BT Health, is to become the chief executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.
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DH mandates incident reporting
The Department of Health has confirmed that it will end the voluntary system for reporting patient safety incidents to the National Patient Safety Agency. Instead, it will make it mandatory for all NHS trusts in England, including hospitals, primary care trusts, mental health services and ambulance services to report instances of harm or death to […]
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Information for World Class Commissioning
World Class Commissioning is a developing discipline with information at its heart. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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MPs back technology for patient safety
MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve patient safety are working or not. In a report concluding its inquiry into patient safety, the House of Commons Health Committee says “judging the overall effectiveness of patient safety policy is made difficult because of […]
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Consultation into ethics of new technologies
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a public consultation on the ethical issues related to online healthcare, telemedicine and commercial medical profiling technologies. The consultation will form the next stage of its inquiry into The Ethics of Personalised Healthcare in the Consumer Age, which was launched in October 2008. The council’s expert working group […]
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Tories would ‘end monopoly’ of NHS Choices
The Conservative Party would remove NHS Choices from Department of Health control and force it to compete on the same terms as other healthcare information providers. In a document promising An NHS Information Revolution to Save Lives, the party says NHS Choices is failing to get adequate information to managers, clinicians and patients and that […]
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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