Nursing

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21 July 2006

NPfIT ‘favourability’ drops with managers

Both IM&T and general managers in the NHS appear to view the National Programme for IT less favourably than they
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5 July 2006

Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children to install Vocera

Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children is to install the Vocera hands-free wireless voice communication system. The new system, which
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30 June 2006

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
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21 June 2006

City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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31 May 2006

Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients

Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking
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9 May 2006

Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH

Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction
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25 April 2006

Summary care record delayed and abridged

The content of the summary record uploaded to the spine will be cut back to include just allergy and prescription
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25 April 2006

Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact

NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact,
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25 April 2006

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
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12 April 2006

New guidance for nurses on text messaging

The Royal College of Nursing has issued guidance on the use of text messaging services for nurses working with children
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