Trust and council in discharge first
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and Islington Council have become the first organisations in the country to go live with a new project to improve information sharing between the NHS and social care.
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RiO supplier buys Mosaic supplier
Servelec Group has acquired social care software provider Corelogic in a £23.5m deal to help it move towards offering a fully integrated IT solution to health and social care.
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Barker calls for joint NHS/care funding
The King’s Fund has called for an end to the split between health and social care in a report that calls for a joint, ring-fenced budget for both and a single commissioner for local services.
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New website to compare social services
A new website designed to help people examine how their local social services are performing, has gone live today.
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Councils get £11.8m for data collection
Councils will get an extra £11.8m of funding to support the move to a new social care data collection system, due to be phased in over coming years.
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Social care data in HSCIC sights
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is looking at automating extractions of adult social care data from council IT systems and linking it with other healthcare data.
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Barnsley Council hooks into PDS
Barnsley Council and Liquidlogic, a McKesson company, have achieved integration of NHS and social care records using the Personal Demographics Service.
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Portal to solve social care problems
The government has reiterated its commitment to create a new national information website for health and social care in the social care white paper, published today.
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Patient Opinion to cover social care
Patient Opinion is to receive government funding to become the official site for patient feedback on social care services.
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Cheshire social care staff access PDS
Social workers and social care assessors at Cheshire East Council are accessing the NHS Personal Demographic Service using Esprit’s ShareCare system.
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