Scotland chooses Anite for social care integration
Public sector IT provider Anite and the Scottish Executive have signed a national contract that aims to deliver inter-agency access to health and social care information. Anite’s contract with the Scottish Executive means that in nine local authorities its social care product SWIFT will be integrated with Scotland’s eCare Multi-Agency Stores which hold health and […]
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Health tie-in needed for social services info spend
The health department has told social services departments to spend new grants for improving information management on systems that tie in with the new white paper on care outside hospital and preparation for integration with the NHS Care Records Service. A Department of Health circular gives details of the £25 million grant to local authorities for 2006/7 […]
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NHS Direct proposes online social care wiki
NHS Direct could soon be setting up an online social care ‘wiki’ that would allow patients to learn from one another about coping with illness and where to obtain support and services. The idea, part of a submission made to the Department of Health’s consultation into its out of hospital care White Paper and announced […]
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CfH to examine health and social care links
Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be considered by Connecting for Health this month, according to Community Care magazine. CfH’s national board is due to consider proposals on how a sub-group of the Care Record Development Board may look at linking records […]
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Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’
The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used by individual children must be made to fit with the national programme for IT, the government has said. The government response to a consultation on information sharing databases – also known as child indexes – carried […]
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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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Croydon PCT merges database with social services
A south London PCT has pooled its patient database with the council social services system in order to improve patient aftercare and data quality. Croydon PCT and Croydon Social Services are using MultiVue, by VisionWare, to synchronise the two record systems. The software allows both health and social care professionals to access the integrated records […]
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Hospital introduces electronic social care referral
An NHS Foundation Trust has developed a seamless electronic social care referral system that ensures that social workers are fully informed of the special needs of discharged patients and can arrange any aftercare they need in advance. The Countess of Chester Hospital’s new system, which is based on their existing Meditech integrated patient care system, […]
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NPfIT failing to engage with social care providers
Social services directors have written to NHS chief executive, Sir Nigel Crisp, pointing out that there is no structure for engaging social care services in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The letter said that social care input had been sought only on an ad hoc basis. David Johnstone, Director of Social Services for Devon, […]
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Electronic Social Care Record To Be Phased
The December 2004 target for implementing full electronic social care records (ESCR) is not achievable and the roll-out is now due to take place between 2008-2010, at the same time as the English NHS integrated care record service (ICRS), a conference heard this week. Roger Staton, head of the Social Care Information Policy Unit at […]
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