Guernsey awards EPR contract to TrakHealth
The Health & Social Services Department of Guernsey has awarded TrakHealth a ten-year deal to provide all healthcare providers on the island with an integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system. The integrated EPR, based on a system called TrakCare, will be used to support the delivery of comprehensive health and social care services to the […]
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Mental health and midwifery leads to join CfH team
Connecting for Health is stepping up its clinical engagement drive with the appointment of new clinical leads for midwifery and mental health nursing and a planned mass distribution of key information about IT modernisation to nurses. Funding for the new clinical leads was announced yesterday (1 May) by the Department of Health’s chief nursing officer, Chris […]
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East Surrey goes live with new maternity system
East Surrey Hospital has gone live with the first implementation of a new maternity information system called Eclipse MIS. The system from Huntleigh Healthcare has been implemented over the past six months and required the migration of 25,000 patient records from the maternity unit’s old Protos system. The unit handles 4,000 deliveries a year and […]
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Nurses ‘losing enthusiasm’ for NHS IT reform
The number of nurses across the UK who believe in the benefits of IT reform in the NHS is falling, says the latest Nursix survey published by the Royal College of Nursing. Around 56% of nurses now say that IT reform is likely to improve clinical care and 49% agree that it will improve their […]
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Lack of NPfIT involvement concerns nurses
Two leading nurses have expressed deep concern at the lack of involvement of the nursing community in the design of and preparation for the National Programme for IT. Professor Dame June Clark, chair of the Royal College of Nursing Information in Nursing Forum, and Richard Hayward, chair of the British Computer Society health informatics (nursing) […]
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Bedford claims savings using rostering software
Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust has predicted it could save up to £500,000 after replacing its paper-based staff rostering system for its nurses and midwives with new software. The MAPS Healthroster ward rostering system, supplied by Manpower Software, has been installed in the trust. The savings are based on the company’s own Rostering Assessment (RA), and […]
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Nurses told they must connect to CfH
Clinical leads have told nurses have to be proactive and to give feedback to Connecting for Health otherwise they risk being left behind. Delegates at the first NHS Connecting for Health Nursing and Midwifery conference this week in London were told that they must get actively involved in the programme. Barbara Stuttle, clinical lead for […]
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400,000 nurses to be registered on Contact
Connecting for Health has announced it is planning to ensure that every nurse in England as well as Scotland has their own e-mail address with NHS webmail service Contact. All members of the Royal College of Nursing that work within the NHS, including agency staff with regular NHS employment, are to be bulk-registered automatically registered on Contact, […]
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Online medical journal access for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has announced that it is making another 90 online peer-reviewed journals available through the NHS Wales online library, bringing the total number of publications staff can access to 200. The addition is part of the programme’s Access to Knowledge (A2K) project. The new journals cover diverse topics such […]
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US speakers for first CfH nursing conference
US nursing experience of using clinical IT systems will be shared at Connecting for Health’s first conference for nurses and midwives in March. Victoria Bradley and Carol Steltenkamp of the University of Kentucky Medical School has been invited to speak at the conference which will be opened by England’s chief nursing officer (CNO). CfH say […]
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