New performance data on private healthcare providers published
The first of a new set of performance measures on private healthcare providers has been published by the Private Healthcare Information Network.
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Interactive map displays PROMS
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has published an interactive map showing the level of health benefit patients feel they gain from four common NHS operations under different providers.
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Last night of the PROMS?
The future of the national Patient Reported Outcome Measures programme is uncertain as the latest changes to the NHS take effect.
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PROMS developer wants national roll-out
A clinician at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust, who created a web-based tool that collects patient reported outcome measures, wants to roll it out nationally.
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Cornish PROMS site changes pathways
Two doctors have launched a web-based system to collect patient reported outcome measures, and have signed up GPs, consultants and GP commissioners to use it.
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Lansley sees PROMS tracker at RNOH
Spinal patients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital are trialling a web-based application that lets patients record the results of back operations.
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GPs’ future should include IT incentives
GP practices should be offered financial incentives to support data quality and to move to paperless practices, according to GP representatives. The BMA’s General Practitioner Committee has published a 50 point plan for the future of general practice in the UK, which includes recommendations on a series of areas including IT, the Quality and Outcomes […]
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King’s Fund urges wide use of PROMS
Patient Related Outcome Measures could have a significant impact on the NHS; but only if staff and patients are engaged to act on the data. These are the broad conclusions of a new report from the King’s Fund and the Office of Health Economics, examining the impact and potential of PROMS a year afrter they […]
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Extend phone outreach: expert group
NHS Direct and NHS walk-in centres could provide more telephone-based outreach services to patients with long term conditions, according to a new report. The Expert Group on Access to Primary Care, chaired by a GP and backed by decision support software suppliers Clinical Solutions, has published a series of recommendations aimed at improving access to […]
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Tories would ‘end monopoly’ of NHS Choices
The Conservative Party would remove NHS Choices from Department of Health control and force it to compete on the same terms as other healthcare information providers. In a document promising An NHS Information Revolution to Save Lives, the party says NHS Choices is failing to get adequate information to managers, clinicians and patients and that […]
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