Dr Foster names safety underperformers
The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient safety. The guide, published over the weekend, identifies patient safety as the single most important element of hospital care. For the first time, it has introduced a Patient Safety Score, awarding scores of one to […]
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HSS completes EuroKing buy-out
EuroKing Miracle has confirmed that is has been acquired by Healthcare Software Systems (HSS). The company faced liquidation by HM Revenue and Customs for non-payment of PAYE contributions. However, it was bought out by HSS before the hearing went ahead at the High Court of Justice’s Chancery Division. Mark Sprigg, chief executive officer of EuroKing Miracle, […]
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Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011
The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that do not comply by July 2011 to be penalised. An advanced notification of a new information standard has been sent out by the ISB that would define the procedures necessary to add barcodes to patient wristbands […]
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Going live
1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ’09.
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Information quality mark launched
The Information Standard accreditation scheme has been launched at the King’s Fund. The Department of Health initiative will award a quality mark to organisations that meet set criteria for producing safe and reliable health and social care information and advice. Organisations will be able to display the mark on their website or literature. The DH says the aim of […]
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It’s cold out there
Malcolm Newbury of IHE UK says it’s time to break out of Groundhog Day and find a new way of doing interoperability in the post NPfIT world.
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Third of trusts miss wristband deadline
The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to meet the requirement to generate and print standardised patient wristbands. The NPSA has issued statistics to E-Health Insider that show that more than three months after the deadline passed in July, only 70% of NHS […]
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Toolkit to nail interoperability – Jones
The new NHS interoperability toolkit has the potential to drive down the cost of interoperability and innovation, according to the Department of Health’s chief technology officer.
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DH endorses first video game
The Nintendo Wii Fit Plus has become the first computer game to be endorsed by the Department of Health. The game, which will go on sale on Friday 30 October, has been granted permission to use the NHS Change4Life logo in its advertising and in shops. Change4Life is an NHS campaign to persuade everyone, but particularly […]
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