DH publishes Cornish 60-year health history
The Department of Health has published a new study looking at the health history of a class of Cornish school children from 60 years ago to the present day on the NHS Choices website. It was commissioned as a way of commemorating the 60th anniversary of the NHS. Visitors to the multi-media web feature can […]
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Pharmacists may get access to patient care records
The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved. The news comes despite BMA concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of extending access to an additional professional group working in the commercial sector. The newly-published white paper on community pharmacy, Pharmacy in England: […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 04.04.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 4 April 2008 featuring supplier news and events. Supplier news KKR to expand Northgate Information Solutions business Following the acquisition of Northgate Information Solutions by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) on 5 March 2008 for £1.1 billion, the company has announced that it plans to […]
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Scotland to pilot new sexual health system
A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in NHS Lanarkshire, with NHS Ayrshire and Arran to follow. The system, based on AxSys Technology’s Excelicare product, will provide a common IT platform supporting specialist sexual health services for 12 NHS Boards across Scotland. A […]
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Electronic ‘fit notes’ could replace sick notes
Paper-based sick notes should be replaced with electronic ‘fit notes’ according to the first ever review of the health of Britain’s working age population. The recommendation to implement an electronic system of ‘fit notes’, which would switch the focus to what people can do and improve communications between employers, employees and GPs, is made in […]
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New clinical lead expresses support for SCR
Personal experience convinced a new national clinical lead (NCL) for Connecting for Health that electronic records were an important future development. Dr Joe McDonald, 46, a consultant at South of Tyne and Wearside, who will be the new NCL for mental health, explained: “Two weeks before our wedding, I got a telephone call from an […]
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Humana issue pedometers in Stoke
Humana Europe is partnering with Stoke-on-Trent PCT to help local patients lose weight and reduce onset of obesity affected conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, using electronic pedometers. The pedometers, which track the number of steps subjects take throughout the day, are programmed to meet the needs of each patient and enable the user […]
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Health informatics one of the ‘grand challenges’
Advancing health informatics has been listed as one of the 21st century’s greatest challenges by a panel of leading engineers and scientists. The 14 ‘Grand Challenges in Engineering’ were unveiled at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting last week, by the panel from the US National Academy of Engineering. Supporting the […]
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York University to study BioBank data use
Social scientists at the University of York are to investigate public attitudes on how medical information on hundreds of thousands of people is managed in the UK Biobank. The study will particularly look into the rules governing third-party access to the data. UK Biobank is currently one of the biggest and most detailed public health […]
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QoF architects call for changes
The architects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) have called for a raft of changes to the scheme as the House of Commons Health Committee prepares to consider how QoF could be used to reduce health inequalities. Prof Martin Roland, director of The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, led work on developing […]
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