Child health strategy to share information
The government plans to promote information sharing across settings to deliver improvements in the health of children and young people, according to a strategy published this week. Healthy lives, brighter futures: the strategy for children and young people’s health says feedback from frontline staff suggests they sometimes feel constrained as to when they can share […]
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Follow my leader
In the latest feature from NHS Connecting for Health, Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Andrew Coley discuss the NHS Clinical Leaders Network.
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Millennium delays cost Kingston £500,000
Delays to the delivery of a Cerner Millennium electronic record system at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust have cost it more than £500,000 so far. The trust says the earliest it may now go live is April 2009, although it currently has no planned go-live date. This has been “postponed indefinitely” until “issues in live trusts […]
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E-asy way to send greetings to patients
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a free e-greeting card service to allow friends and relatives to send messages to inpatients at its four sites. People who want to send a card can do so from the trust’s website. Once in the e-greeting cards section, they can choose a card design, pick […]
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Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust was forced to develop workarounds for isolating MRSA patients after Cerner’s Millennium care records system was unable to cope with its superbug monitoring system for 18 months. In minutes obtained by E-Health Insider under the Freedom of Information Act, the trust’s National Programme for IT in the NHS programme board says […]
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The Adventurous 4.0
In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Choose and Book’s national medical director, Dr Stephen Miller, outlines the latest developments to the online booking system.
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Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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NHS Choices launches maternity guide
The first NHS online maternity guide has been launched by the Department of Health aiming to offer mothers and fathers-to-be information on pregnancy and birth. The new ‘Pregnancy Care Planner’ has been published on the NHS Choices website, and contains the latest comprehensive advice on all aspects of pregnancy, from getting pregnant, early pregnancy, the […]
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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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