Modernisation Board Says NHS Plan On Track
The NHS Modernisation Board has published a mixed progress report on the ten-year NHS modernisation programme. The report highlights continuing difficulties due to limited NHS capacity, old buildings and out of date equipment but paints an upbeat picture of progress on IT. However, it concludes that extra resources are filtering down to the front line […]
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Electronic Booking Shifts Up a Gear
A further 45 electronic booking programmes are to start as the NHS gears up to meet its target of making all hospital appointment booking electronic by March 2005, health minister John Hutton announced today. Speaking at a conference held to celebrate the achievements of the five ‘Enterprise Communities’ already experimenting with electronic booking, Mr Hutton […]
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Investment, Expansion and Reform Plans Reinforce IM&T Agenda
Information management and technology (IM&T) is identified as one of the key areas underpinning NHS and social care development which needs to be expanded over the next three years. The Department of Health’s priorities and planning framework for 2003-6, Investment Expansion and Reform published this week says that nationally the NHS will be looking for […]
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Personal Health Journal Advocated
A US group of health reformers has advocated the development of a Personal Health Journal, a voluntary system of electronic medical records that would be transportable over the Internet, but owned and controlled by individual patients. The proposals suggest how the NHS’s electronic health records programme may become a key tool to promote quality, patient […]
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Electronic Systems Could Free Up Millions of GP Appointments
Cutting out unnecessary GP paperwork, such as filling out repeat prescriptions and sick notes, could save up to 3.2 million GP appointments, concludes a new report. Freeing up GPs time by removing unnecessary and cumbersome red tape, and introducing electronic communications and electronic prescribing, would also provide patients with faster access to their GP. Routine […]
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Monaghan Promises IT Procurement Strategy by July
Last week saw the publication of the new NHS IT implementation strategy, ‘Delivering 21st Century IT Support’ , as reported first by E-Health Insider. However, many key questions remain to be answered around how the new relationships with suppliers will work, how procurements can be accelerated and how the whole programme can be rapidly delivered. […]
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