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 project launched ahead of the national NHS Care Records Service. The Clinical Data Repository (CDR) set up by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority has gone live this month with GP records for […]
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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 of the government’s vision of records available “wherever and whenever you need them”, it has emerged. An internal document produced by Connecting for Health reveals that although its proposed consent model would allow clinicians across […]
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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 information initially, Connecting for Health (CfH) has decided. The decision to significantly abridge the initial content of the record has been made to allay GPs’ concerns over the accuracy of their records. It could also […]
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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, the web-based e-mail service it procured for the health service at a total cost of up to £90m. At Healthcare Computing 2006 last month CfH chief executive Richard Granger castigated NHS trusts for not fully […]
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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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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 and young people. The college says: “Text messaging can provide access and signposting to health and advice services for young or vulnerable people who would not access services by traditional methods.” However, it stresses the […]
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Revamped clinical system for stoma nurses launched
Satellite navigation, voice recognition and a group calendar all feature in a newly-revamped patient management system devised for specialist stoma nurses. The system, named Mime, was unveiled last week to stoma nurses at a conference in Cheshire hosted by manufacturer, Coloplast, which developed it. The firm, one of the main suppliers of ostomy equipment, has […]
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Bluetooth ID badge handwashing monitor proposed
A team of academics, clinicians and computer scientists have developed a system that uses a Bluetooth-based wearable ID tag to monitor and log whether staff and vistors on an intensive care ward have washed their hands. The as-yet unnamed system was developed by clinicians at the University of Manchester and computer scientists at the University […]
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NHS Direct staff could face job cuts
Jobs at NHS Direct may be cut by up to a third, and nurses replaced by non-medical call centre operatives, according to press reports today. The Nursing Times will tomorrow report that a closed session of the NHS Direct board, held on 28 February, drafted proposals to cut the equivalent of 960 full-time post through […]
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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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