Ongoing pathology IT crash in Leeds
One of the largest trusts in the country has seen its pathology IT system crash, forcing it to postpone some appointments and surgery.
Clinical Software
Andy Kinnear: never too old for school
Andy Kinnear came away from this year’s annual Health CIO Summer School inspired – and signed up to a new pledge to promote professionalism.
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NHS Leeds West CCG rolls out pain management app
As part of a redesign of a chronic pain pathway, NHS Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group is offering patients free access to the PainSense app developed by ADI, to help them manage their pain.
Digital Patient
Leeds pilots network integration
The NHS in Leeds is working with the city council on a pilot project to integrate the two different networks used by health and social care services.
Infrastructure
CCIO profile: Jo Dickson
Leeds Teaching’s CNIO has moved from a reluctant IT convert to a nursing informatics leader during her 20 years in the NHS. She spoke to Sam Sachdeva.
CCIO Network
Sharing the pain
Legal issues, information governance, patient consent; the barriers to information sharing are legion. Good job CCIOs are committed to getting through them. Claire Read reports.
CCIO Network
Leeds takes EPMA from CSC
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.8m contract with CSC for its Medchart electronic prescribing and medicines administration system.
News
Health CIO profile: Eileen Jessop
The deputy director of informatics at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust talks to Sam Sachdeva about her career, its electronic patient record plans, and the trust’s role in a changing NHS.
Feature
Leeds CCG seeks feedback on GPs via text
NHS Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group is piloting a Friends and Family Test feedback text messaging system.
News
Rising star: Samantha Robinson
In the first of a series of interviews with the “rising stars” of NHS IT, Lis Evenstad talks to Samantha Robinson, who is helping Leeds’ acute trust through an ambitious transformation programme.
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