West Midlands data sharing pilot expands shared records vision
Two shared care collaboratives in the West Midlands have confirmed they can successfully share data fuelling hopes for the region’s care vision.
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McKesson for Coventry and Warwickshire
NHS Coventry and NHS Warwickshire have gone live with McKesson’s child health management system, CarePlus Child Health.
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CAF demonstrator details unveiled
The Department of Health has published an overview of the work being undertaken by the nine sites chosen as demonstrators for the Common Assessment Framework. The nine successful sites were announced in February. Each partnership is led by local adult social services and involves a range of acute and community health services and IT suppliers. […]
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Kentucky Derby comes to Warwickshire
Children in Warwickshire are taking part in an online race in which school-buses full of horses are powered by the amount of exercise they do. Year six pupils at three junior schools in the county are piloting the Horse Power Challenge, which was developed by commissioning services provider Humana. The company is based in Louisville, […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists
OLM recruits councils to personalisation programme
OLM Group has announced that six local authorities have joined its personalisation partnership programme, which is designed to help councils promote the government’s personalisation agenda in adult social care. Sam Newman, personalisation programme director, said the first cohort of councils to join were: Wandsworth Council, Suffolk County Council, Devon County Council, Warwickshire County Council and […]
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BT eHealth Insider Awards 2008 – finalists
Finalists for the prestigious BT e-Health Insider Awards ‘08 were chosen by judges meeting in London this week. The finalists were picked from 138 entries – almost twice as many as last year – submitted by organisations around the UK. The winners’ identities will remain a close secret until the awards ceremony on 17 November […]
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European judgement casts doubts on NHS CRS consent
A GP campaigning against the consent model for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) claims a European Court of Human Rights judgement reinforces his view that the NHS database is unlawful. In a judgement published last week the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a nurse in Finland had her right to privacy breached. […]
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Evaluating SCR options
A busy summer lies ahead as the implications of the evaluation of the Summary Care Record are considered, Fiona Barr reports.
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