New web based system to monitor C. difficile bug
A new web based system to enhance monitoring of the Clostridium difficile bug (C difficile) is to be introduced later this month by the Department of Health (DH), enabling acute and primary care trusts to monitor progress on local targets and to identify ‘infection hotspots’ requiring attention. The department says the new system will both […]
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SHAs must plan local IT expenditure, guidance says
The Department of Health has published guidance to strategic health authorities on how to produce plans for local IT expenditure from 2007, as part of the move to local ownership of IT strategy. Plans must be produced and submitted by the end of March. The new guidance follows the publication last December of the NHS Operating […]
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NHS plan signals shift to local IT ownership
A sharp shift of responsibility for NHS IM&T in England from the centre to local organisations is signalled in the service’s new plan for 2007-8 published today. ‘The NHS in England: the operating framework for 2007-8’ was launched by NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, who says in his foreword: “We are devolving power from the […]
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