Barking goes-live with EuroKing maternity system
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system, E3, to help achieve better data collection, reporting and audit. The system has been implemented across Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital, which between them deliver 10,000 high and low risk births annually. The trust is using the […]
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QoF to be ‘crucial’ in obesity plans
The government has said the Quality and Outcomes Framework will play a “crucial” part in its plans to tackle obesity as campaigners call for the QoF to be adapted to include more indicators on sexual health. Health secretary Alan Johnson told a Fabian Society meeting last week that QoF was a crucial part of the […]
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Major weaknesses found in maternity systems
The Healthcare Commission has urged trusts to invest in maternity information systems in a report that identifies major weaknesses in services for pregnant women and new mothers. The outcome of a two-year review of maternity services in England, launched after a series of inquiries at trusts, identifies a lack of good maternity information services as […]
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We live in digital times
Nick Timmins, public policy editor of the Financial Times, argues that the NHS has to succeed in digitisatising if it is to last another 60 years.
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Tories promise NHS information revolution
The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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NHS Tayside launches video GP trial
NHS Tayside patients are the first to be able to use an out-of-hours GP video link to communicate with nurses or emergency practitioners for help with minor illnesses or injuries. Patients currently attending the out-of-hours service in a minor illness and injury unit in Perth & Kinross will be seen by a nurse or emergency […]
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Tories would end projects like NHS ‘supercomputer’
Conservative party leader, David Cameron promised today that if his party was elected there would be no more IT projects “like Labour’s hubristic NHS supercomputer”. Addressing the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts in London yesterday, Cameron attacked the Labour Party’s commitment to large scale, centralised systems. “The basic reason for the problems [in […]
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Conservatives hold review of NHS IT
The Conservative party has confirmed it is currently undertaking an independent review of the National Programme for IT. Shadow health minister, Stephen O’Brien, had initially announced in an opposition debate last June: “If the government do not agree to a full and independent review as a result of our call, we will, as a matter […]
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Harrogate deploy asset management software
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust has implemented new asset management software to provide a single asset register better track and manage its equipment, including IT hardware and software. The trust will also use the software, supplied by Real Asset Management, to help improve helpdesk services and audits of its 13,000 resources. John Brewster, capital […]
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NPfIT ‘pushed the NHS into disarray’ say Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrats have labelled the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) as a waste of money which ‘has pushed the NHS into disarray’. Setting out his vision for the NHS, in policy paper, ‘Empowerment, Fairness and Quality in Healthcare’, Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, says that NPfIT and the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) have […]
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