Scots consumers call for information on record sharing
The Scottish Consumer Council is pressing for more information to be distributed to patients about the way their electronic health records will be shared, saying that the NHS needs to pay greater attention to patients’ views on the matter. Its report, ‘Health Online: Public Attitudes to Data Sharing in the NHS’, recommends that every home […]
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Scottish GPs choose to lose GPASS
Large numbers of practices have indicated that they want to move away from the Scottish GP computer system GPASS as part of the Scottish Executive’s new deal on system choice. The deadline for practices that want to change IT system provider is October 31, under the deal on system choice which was agreed between the […]
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Devon chooses Consensus for learning management
A learning management system supplied by CS Group has been chosen by five NHS trusts in the South Devon NHS Community to support their learning and development programmes. CS Group will supply the five trusts with its Consensus Learning Management System (LMS), which will initially be used to support the local training and administration requirements of the […]
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NHS 24 report calls for radical review of helpline
A radical review of Scotland’s health helpline NHS 24 has recommended using the new volume predictive technology to ensure the best possible match of supply to demand as one of a raft of measures to improve the troubled service. The report – which is highly critical of NHS 24’s board – also says that more […]
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BNF for Children launches with online version
A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version www.bnfc.nhs.uk free of charge to anyone in England. Its publishers hope NHS staff in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland will also soon have access. The health departments in all four countries have arranged for doctors […]
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GPASS Clinical may run locally
NHS Scotland is considering making the new version of its GPASS clinical system available on local practice servers as well as central servers following pressure from GPs. EHI Primary Care can reveal that NHS Scotland has told the GPASS User Group that it is considering the move, described by the GPASS user group says is essential to speed […]
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Cisco to create N3 for Scotland
Cisco Systems announced this week that it has been awarded a contract by BT to help build the New NHS Network (N3) for NHS Scotland connecting 3,000 NHS locations around the country. Ron MacDonald, principal consultant, national services, NHS Scotland, said: “This project represents one of the biggest information and communications technology procurements ever undertaken by […]
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Software for Scottish minor ailments service launched
Software to support the first phase of Scotland’s e-pharmacy plans has begun to be used by a pharmacy to run its minor ailments service. Cegedim Rx is the first of the pharmacy system suppliers to release electronic minor ailments service (e-MAS) software which it is planned will eventually be used by all pharmacies across Scotland. […]
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Ambulance services get digital radios
The Department of Health has awarded a contract for a new digital radio and communication system for all NHS ambulance trusts in England, which will provide ambulance service staff with better communications, particularly when responding to critical incidents such as the 7 July London bomb attacks. The new digital radio service will replace the existing […]
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Retinopathy software gets funding boost
Digital Healthcare, Cambridge-based manufacturers of ophthalmic and diabetic retinopathy software, have just announced that they have received £3m of funding from numerous venture capital and private equity firms. Rob Stichbury, MD of Digital Healthcare, spoke of his delight at the funding, which will be coming from Albany Ventures, Elaia Partners, Sitka Partners and YFM Private […]
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