Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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Ofcom launches 111 consultation
Ofcom has launched a consultation on the use of a national 111 non-emergency number for healthcare. Following the consultation, the Department of Health plans to pilot the new number and to roll the service out across England. Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, will run the consultation from today, looking at use […]
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Money, money, money
The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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NHS launches cancer toolkit
The NHS has formally launched a Cancer Commissioning Toolkit to help local NHS managers to develop better cancer-fighting strategies based on national standards and data. Until recently, data on the effective use of cancer drugs, treatments and waiting times has been held in 15 competing databases and often in paper format. The toolkit is a […]
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Panasonic launches new Mobile Clinical Assistant
Panasonic has launched the latest version of its Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged tablet-style wireless handheld computer specifically designed for use by clinicians.
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Rotherham and Barnsley ASCC procurement
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust have become among the first in the country to complete a procurement using the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework contract. The two trusts have used ASCC to procure a shared laboratory information management system from CliniSys. In December 2007, the two trusts decided to establish […]
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Nortel files for bankruptcy protection
Nortel Networks, the Canadian telecoms equipment and networks specialist, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US to enable it to restructure. Nortel provides network and telecoms services to a number of NHS trusts in the UK, including: Liverpool Women’s hospital; Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust; and IP telephony to NHS trusts in Worcester and central […]
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Map of Medicine publishes VTE pathway
The Map of Medicine has published a new pathways for the prevention of Venous Thromoembolism (VTE) in hospital patients, which is responsible for approximately 25,000 deaths in the UK each year. The new pathway should help support the Department of Health’s national policy that all patients admitted to hospital in England should receive a risk […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: live on the night
Almost 400 people gathered at the Millennium Mayfair hotel for the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008. Lyn Whitfield was among them.
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Uni-NHS link up creates mapping tools
A new visual process mapping technique that can be used to capture and improve hospital systems has been developed as the result of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between NHS Fife and the University of Stirling. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships bring UK business and higher education together. The Fife project saw a computing graduate, Mike Ghattas, work […]
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