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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Rant or rate?
A NHS-backed social software project is helping patients give feedback online directly to healthcare organisations, finds Fiona Barr.
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HC2006 to run NHS basics course for new IT staff
The annual Healthcare Computing conference (HC2006) in Harrogate is to feature for the first time a series of workshops for technical staff new to the NHS. The stream, ‘Understanding Healthcare’, will be aimed at IT staff who have just joined the healthcare sector and be designed to educate them about the realities of healthcare […]
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Nursing engagement ‘could become a risk’
Communication with nurses affected by new IT implementations is an issue and will become a risk without appropriate action, IT professionals have been warned. Bernice Baker a nursing lecturer at Bournemouth University and co-founder of the e-health nurses network called for a strategic approach to bringing nurses into IT change programmes. The benefits would be […]
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Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study
Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are given, rather than technology itself, a study undertaken by the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Austria is suggesting. Existing project management frameworks tend only to focus on whether users can operate […]
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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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CfH announces new nursing clinical lead
NHS Connecting for Health has appointed Susan Osborne, director of nursing services at St Mary’s NHS Trust, London, as its new national clinical lead for the nursing professions. Osborne (pictured) replaces Heather Tierney-Moore, who quit at the end of last year for a new post of director of nursing at NHS Lothian. Other posts held […]
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Scottish NHS staff miss PCs for Christmas
NHS staff in Lothian has been left without a new home computer for Christmas bought through the Home Computing Initiative after BT suffered supply problems caused by over-subscription to the scheme in Scotland. According to The Scotsman, around 3000 NHS workers across the whole of Scotland had not received their new PCs for Christmas, and some have […]
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Great Ormond Street implements electronic prescribing
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has begun implementation of JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System. The new EPMA system now provides clinicians at the trust with software for the electronic prescribing and administration of medicines on a nephrology ward, and work has now begun on introducing the system into other wards […]
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Study shows ROI on mobile technology in NHS
A study jointly commissioned by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Connecting for Health into the impact of mobile technology in acute clinical environments has identified significant potential time and resource savings. The findings suggest that investment in mobile networks, devices and wireless-enabled applications can deliver a measurable return on investment (ROI) for healthcare […]
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