Cheshire trusts send e-discharge letters
Three acute trusts are delivering electronic discharge letters to almost 90 GP practices using a shared IT solution that plugs into existing computer systems. Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust has led the initiative, which uses the MedisecNET electronic delivery system from Medisec Software. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Cheshire […]
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Lancashire begins e-document project
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale in Lancashire has begun a project to digitise all its inactive health care records. The primary care trust is working with EDM Group to convert inactive paper records into digital records. The document conversion should dramatically reduce paper storage requirements. It should also help to improve the efficiency of the retrieval of inactive records, […]
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Barts 18 week backlog in thousands
A new care record system has contributed to thousands of patients from Barts and the London NHS Trust potentially breaching the national 18-week referral to treatment time target. The trust is facing a backlog of 23,000 potential breaches, and although it says the situation is improving – and it has resumed reporting on 18-week waits […]
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RiO upgrades restart in London
The programme of upgrades to the RiO community health software has re-started in London, with two primary care trusts now using the latest version. Newham PCT received an upgrade to Version 5.1 earlier this month from local service provider BT, and has been followed by NHS Brent. A spokesperson for BT told EHI Primary Care that […]
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LAs split on telecare funding plans
Almost half of local authorities expect to increase their spending on telecare in this financial year, but a further third predict that they will cut telecare funding, according to latest figures. Provisional data from the Care Quality Commission’s performance information on telecare in England shows a divide in local authority plans to invest in telecare […]
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EHI Awards finalists unveiled
Information for World Class Commissioning
World Class Commissioning is a developing discipline with information at its heart. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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DH bans use of premium rate phone number
The Department of Health has announced that the use of premium rate phone numbers in the NHS is to be banned.
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Flu Line staff reduced
The Department of Health has reduced the number of call centre staff delivering the National Pandemic Flu Service. The DH said the online and telephone-based flu assessment service had proved “extremely successful” since its launch at the end of July and that it had helped to take the pressure off other parts of the NHS. […]
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Local campaigns for NHS Number
The Department of Health and NHS Connecting for Health have announced that they will not be launching a public awareness campaign to promote the NHS Number. Despite receiving a number of queries from local organisations, the NHS Number Programme has instead laid out advice on how organisations can improve public awareness of the number and […]
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