17 June 2013

CQC consults on ‘Ofsted-style’ regime

The Care Quality Commission has launched a public consultation on proposals to change its inspection regime and introduce ‘Ofsted-style’ ratings
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17 June 2013

Surrey and Sussex gets patient feedback

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is implementing a patient experience system to collect feedback on its services.
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13 June 2013

Salford Royal live with Allscripts

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust went live with its Allscripts electronic patient record last weekend, three months ahead of schedule.
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13 June 2013

Trust does op checks by web cam

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is piloting a virtual outpatient clinic for patients in orthopaedics in an effort to increase
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The UK Houses of Parliament
12 June 2013

NHS runs up £31.5m Fujitsu dispute bill

The NHS has run up £31.5m in legal costs as a result of Fujitsu’s departure from NPfIT in 2008, the
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11 June 2013

‘Longer Lives’ launched

Public Health England has launched a new website showing great variation in early death rates across the country.
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11 June 2013

Durham gets paperless A&Es

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has gone paperless in its two A&E departments with Ascribe’s Symphony unscheduled care
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10 June 2013

Trusts failed to report NPfIT benefits

NHS Trusts have failed to report benefits of National Programme for IT systems leading to incomplete information on the success
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7 June 2013

ChangingNHS portal launched

The British Medical Association has launched a web portal to help people understand the changes happening in the NHS.
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6 June 2013

NHS Number to be mandated from 2014

Trusts will be contractually obligated to use the NHS number as their primary patient identifier from April 2014.
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