Health and Social Care chief talks about year ahead
Bob Allen, interim chief executive of the new Information Centre for Health and Social Care, has spoken to E-Health Insider about the centre’s responsibilities when it comes into being as a special authority on 1 April, 2005. The centre takes over some of the role of the NHS Information Authority, which is to be disbanded […]
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NHS cleans up data collection requirements
The DH have announced plans to reduce the amount of data collection in the NHS in an effort to save an estimated £7.6m, by no longer collecting some information, including “local issues" such as laundry and linen statistics from NHS Foundation Trusts. Parking and transport data from foundation trusts will also no longer need to […]
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Mental health data sharing installed in Cornwall
IMS MAXIMS has announced the installation of a system to enable sharing of mental health data across a number of sites in Cornwall in order to support the National Service Framework. The system, installed in November, covers 300 NHS trust staff is planned to be extended to over 1000 users in the New Year. It […]
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NHS Direct digital TV launch imminent
The DH has announced that NHS Direct Digital TV, which will provide basic information on local health services and advice on treating common illnesses through interactive TV, will be launched tomorrow at a cost of £15m. The service will also include the latest news about health issues, and an encyclopaedia of illnesses and treatments. In […]
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First NPfIT SAP system uses data spine
Software that operates using a working version of the data spine has been installed by Accenture under the NPfIT in trusts in Newcastle and Northumberland to support the Single Assessment Process (SAP) for older people. SAP was introduced under the National Service Framework for older people in 2001 to increase the share of data between […]
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NHSU folds in arm’s length review
The NHSU which was hailed as the NHS’s corporate university and promised innovative learning from a virtual campus is to fold. A new Special Health Authority, the NHS Institute for Learning, Skills and Innovation (NILSI), is to replace the NHSU, NHS Modernisation Agency and the NHS Leadership Centre as well as supporting a new Innovation Centre. […]
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Agenda for Change draft job profiles published
Job profiles for NHS health informatics staff, drawn up to meet the requirements of the national Agenda for Change pay structure, have been published for consultation this week. The staff organisations that co-operated on the profiles say they believe the new structure represents health informatics roles fairly, but they add that there will be jobs for […]
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Accenture names Phoenix as primary care supplier
Accenture has announced that it has signed agreements with Microsoft, Liquidlogic and The Phoenix Partnership to provide technology solutions for the North-east and Eastern regions of English NHS, under the National Programme for IT. Accenture is the local service provider for the North-east and Eastern regions, two of the five English NHS regions covered by […]
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Mencap chief exec joins care record board
Jo Williams, chief executive of Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, has joined the National Programme for IT’s Care Record Development Board (CRDB) as its social care deputy chair. Williams (right) said she was very pleased to be appointed and to be working with CRDB chair, Harry Cayton, for whom she said she had the […]
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New information authority seeks chief exec
The new Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is due to take over the information management responsibilities of the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA), has started recruiting for a chief executive. The advert, placed in Sunday’s Observer, is asking for somebody with “credibility and gravitas”, “evidence of high intellectual ability” and a person who is […]
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