Community nurses to start e-prescribing pilot in 2006
Community nurses are to take part in NHS Connecting for Health pilots of electronic nurse prescribing early next year. Barbara Stuttle, Connecting for Health’s clinical lead for community nurses, told EHI Primary Care that community staff such as district nurses and health visitors would be provided with laptops and handheld computers as part of the […]
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Bavaria launches patient-controlled health records
The German Patient-Partner Association (PPV), a health provider network, and the German statutory health insurance organisation AOK Bavaria are to introduce electronic communications between GPs and patients. The system will include a patient-controlled personal electronic health record, which enables patients to determine who can access their record, or nominate their doctor or carer to set […]
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Virtual healthcare research institute launched
A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in Healthcare Practice (VIRIHP). Members will work together via online discussion boards, email and telephone and video conferencing in addition to conventional face-to-face meetings twice a year. One of the institute’s objectives will be to “develop […]
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CfH nursing clinical lead to quit for Scotland
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that its national clinical lead for nursing, Heather Tierney-Moore, is to leave her post for a new job in Scotland. Tierney-Moore, who is also chief nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has been appointed director of nursing at NHS Lothian and will take up her post in the […]
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Online tool to promote NHS infection awareness
An online training tool to help all NHS staff understand infection control and make hospitals cleaner has been launched by chief nursing officer (CNO), Chris Beasley. Launching the new online tool at the Infection Control Nurses Association annual conference, the CNO said: “This innovative approach to training will mean hundreds and thousands of NHS staff […]
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New software for logging drug enquiries ready
New software that helps pharmacists in local medicine information centres to record and audit clinician enquiries about medication has been released this week, offering potential future expandability to the NHS Care Records Service and an update to some of the older, DOS-based systems. The MiDatabank system allows clinician enquiries about medication to be logged for future audit, […]
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National Knowledge Service aims high
Building a centralised electronic National Knowledge Service, that will deliver focused clinical knowledge to clinicians when they need it, has become the key aim of NHS Connecting for Health’s (CfH) new Knowledge, Process and Safety Directorate. The National Knowledge Service (NKS) will seek to ensure "that all decisions are based not only the best current […]
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The ‘magic glue’
EHI speaks to Beverly Malone, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, about the importance of raising awareness of IT change in the nursing profession.
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Nurses support IT reform – but lack information
Nurses remain supportive of NHS IT developments and rising numbers feel better informed about them – but the majority still say they have inadequate information or no information at all. This latest snapshot of nurses’ views comes from an online survey by Nursix conducted earlier this year among 1776 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members. […]
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Nurses happier using telecare, says international survey
Many nurses who specialise in telecare are experiencing greater job satisfaction than those who do not, according to the results of a major international survey into the use of IT in nursing. 59% of ‘telenurses’ claimed that they are happier caring for patients over video, e-mail or phone connections than in person. Reasons cited by nurses […]
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