Nursing

Archive
6 April 2005

Evercare pilots highlight need for better data

Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality,
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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
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1 April 2005

Community nurses need better information access

The Royal College of Nursing have said that community nurses and others who work in primary care are much less
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3 March 2005

IT input for nurses

E-Health Insider speaks to Sharon Levy from the RCN about what steps NPfIT needs to take to engage with nurses,
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10 February 2005

NPfIT urged to communicate with nurses

The Royal College of Nursing have called for better communication between nursing staff and the National Programme for IT, and
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3 February 2005

New clinical representative groups to be established

A series of new clinical representative groups are to be established to provide a direct link for the first time
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25 January 2005

Nursing IT study to look at local systems

The Department of Health has funded a £250,000, two-year study into how nurses use IT when making clinical decisions and
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24 December 2004

Health and Social Care chief talks about year ahead

Bob Allen, interim chief executive of the new Information Centre for Health and Social Care, has spoken to E-Health Insider
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6 December 2004

Release the pharmacists

Better application of technology could take the administrative burden away from hospital pharmacists, leaving them free to concentrate on patient
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5 November 2004

Robot cat gives patients happy felines

Researchers in Georgetown University, Washington DC, have found that stroking a robotic cat is more beneficial to health than petting
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