Lord Darzi quits government
Lord Darzi is to resign as a health minister but to retain a role as a government advisor. Downing Street said he wanted to give up his ministerial duties to spend more time "on his clinical role and academic research". Lord Darzi was one of a number of non-politicians brought into government by Gordon Brown […]
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Scotland delivers e-prescription service
Scotland has announced that it has become the first country in the UK to deliver an electronic prescription service, with more than 90% of prescriptions now submitted electronically. Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon said the electronic Acute Medication Service (eAMS) was the first national system of its kind to go live anywhere in the UK […]
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Ofcom launches 111 consultation
Ofcom has launched a consultation on the use of a national 111 non-emergency number for healthcare. Following the consultation, the Department of Health plans to pilot the new number and to roll the service out across England. Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, will run the consultation from today, looking at use […]
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EMIS Web links to secondary care
Leading GP IT system supplier EMIS has unveiled its next generation IT system EMIS Web, promising interoperability with primary and secondary care providers. EMIS claims the system will set a new standard for the NHS, by enabling clinicians outside general practice to access a patient’s GP medical record, view other patient information recorded on the […]
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Quality counts
The Quality and Outcomes Research Unit at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust was the overall winner in last year’s BT E-Health Insider awards. Daloni Carlisle finds out why.
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Morecambe Bay completes Furness pilot
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has completed the roll out of iSoft’s Lorenzo electronic patient record at its pilot site at Furness General Hospital. It’s next move will be to pilot Lorenzo on medical wards in Lancaster.
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Apprentice sells ad screens to NHS
The winner of the BBC business entertainment series The Apprentice will work for a business selling digital signs to GP practices and other NHS bodies. Yasmina Siadatan has been given a £100,000 job with Sir Alan Sugar’s Amscreen Health Care business. Siadatan beat off competition from 15 other competitors in the award-winning business show to […]
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Million tune in for Twitter surgery
Channel Four has run a series of live surgery operations where viewers could directly question the surgeon live via microblogging site Twitter.
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Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient
Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when operating.
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Open all hours
NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards for the Emergency Care Summary.
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