14 February 2013

CSUs to spend £670m a year

The commissioning support units that will come into being on 1 April will spend around £700m a year on IT
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13 February 2013

Needling away at a problem

The Harm Reduction Database Wales won the ‘best use of IT to promote patient safety’ category of the EHI Awards
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12 February 2013

A right Royal mess

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust’s implementation of Cerner Millennium was troubled from the outset and still causing it problems. Rebecca
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11 February 2013

Joe’s view of chalk and talk

Joe McDonald wants YOU to fill in the great big mental health system user survey.
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8 February 2013

Maracis moves again – to Silverlink

Silverlink Software has acquired Unity Mental Health from the Amor Group, which only bought the system from Maracis last August.
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7 February 2013

Basildon buys Medway

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has bought the Medway electronic patient record system.
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6 February 2013

It’s big, but is it clever?

Robert Francis’ final report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal is huge, but will its impact be in proportion to its
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6 February 2013

Indicators and placards

The Mid Staffs scandal has already left one legacy, in the form of a new mortality indicator for the NHS.
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5 February 2013

Jonathan Kay appointed ‘NHS CB CCIO’

The NHS Commissioning Board has appointed a clinical informatics director to "provide clinical leadership on the best use of informatics."
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5 February 2013

Power to the people

Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, argues that public feedback, not public inquiries, are the way
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