SW London Tackles Staff Recruitment Via the Internet
A new Internet-based workforce management system has been developed by the South West London Workforce Development Confederation (WDC) to promote job vacancies and match people to NHS jobs more effectively. The confederation is one of 27 new WDCs in England responsible for healthcare employment and training issues throughout their geographical areas. According to Parity, the […]
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Three London Trusts Sign £5m Deal with iSOFT
NHS trusts in South East London’s Lambeth Lewisham and Southwark Collaboration have signed three contracts worth £5m with healthcare applications systems supplier, iSOFT. The three trusts involved – Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Trusts and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust – will use iSOFT’s Patient Management System (PiMS). The eight year […]
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Pharmacy2U Launches NHS Repeat E-prescriptions Service
Pharmacy2U, the UK’s leading mail order and online pharmacy site, have launched a pilot electronic prescribing electronic service to enable patients to self-manage their NHS prescriptions online. Patients who have signed up for the NHS electronic transmission of prescription pilot in the South East — one of three national pilots being funded by the DoH […]
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South Staffs Launches Community-wide Electronic Records
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with an enterprise-wide, patient information system, PiMS, which provides staff with real time patient information. Supplied by iSOFT the system provides the trusts 3,500 clinicians with access to the computerised details and clinical information of all patients within the 0.5 million local population. The PiMS patient record […]
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Scottish GP Practices to Offer Access to Internet
A new initiative has been launched in Scotland to provide public access to the Internet in the local GP surgery, local pub, shop, hairdresser or church to help tackle the "digital divide". Social Justice Minister Iain Gray on Monday announced the £3.2 million initiative by the Scottish Executive to create a network of 1,000 new […]
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Patient ID Chip Set for Global Launch
A tiny ID microchip that can be implanted in the human body, and then used to identify patients and enable their key medical information to be accessed securely, is to be launched globally at the beginning of May. The VeriChip, is a miniaturised, implantable radio frequency identification device (RFID), about the size of a grain […]
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Torex Wins Contracts at Two Shared Services Sites
Torex Health has been awarded five year contracts to implement Oracle financial services software at two shared services centres due to open in autumn this year. The centres at Bristol and South Leeds will provide a range of financial services to various NHS organisations including acute, primary care and ambulance trusts in two UK regions […]
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PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans
Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold while new national plans for IM&T strategy are drawn up. A new wave of Primary Care Trusts and strategic health authorities was created on 1 April, when health authorities were abolished replaced by 302 Primary […]
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Five Booked Admissions ‘Enterprise Communities’ Announced
Five new ‘Enterprise Communities’ have been announced to speed up the introduction of electronic booked admissions into the NHS. The five sites will be supported by £2m of funding. In an address to NHS Booked Admissions Programme staff in Manchester today, health minister John Hutton said: "These new Enterprise Communities are leading the biggest healthcare […]
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Top Effectiveness Prize for Wirral
An automated dispensing system that has saves staff time and reduces drug dispensing errors took the top prize in the 2002 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards. The system was the brainchild of a team at the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK centres most closely associated with pioneering IT developments. The team developed new […]
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