Northern Ireland

Archive
17 August 2005

Framework agreement for NHS videoconferencing

  Videoconferencing specialists, Questmark, have been awarded a three-year framework agreement by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency for the supply
Read More
4 April 2005

Nurses need better access to IT, says RCN survey

A survey of nurses, midwives and health visitors undertaken by the Royal College of Nursing has shown that not enough
Read More
23 March 2005

Northern Ireland unveils plans for electronic records

Northern Ireland has announced plans to develop its own electronic care record in a move which has led to calls
Read More
7 March 2005

Survey exposes unsafe security practice

Measures taken by doctors to safeguard confidentiality, especially electronic records, are severely deficient and fuel the concerns of those trusted
Read More
26 October 2004

Hospital clerk jailed for culling patient data

A hospital worker from Northern Ireland who collected information from the patient records of politicians, senior military and police personnel,
Read More
5 August 2004

The Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS)

The quality and outcomes framework (QoF) is designed to reward practices for the quality of care offered to their patients
Read More
27 May 2004

MPs told Wales, Scotland and NI passed on NPfIT

The NHS in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales were each approached and subsequently turned down the opportunity to participate in
Read More
2 April 2004

Nurses in the dark on IT developments, survey reveals

UK nurses are generally positive about NHS IT developments, but over three quarters have received little or no information about
Read More
30 September 2003

Reader Comment: ā€˜NPfIT Viewed from Scotlandā€™

The following ‘reader comment’ was supplied in response to recent E-Health Insider reports on the development of the National Programme for
Read More
19 August 2003

IBM To Consolidate NI Health IT

IBM has announced that the first applications have gone live under its ten-year contract to provide Directorate of Information Systems of
Read More