Unison hits out at Rotherham job losses

Trade union Unison has called on The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust to rethink plans that would see hundreds of staff
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Nottingham reduces clinical incidents

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has reduced night-time clinical incidents by 70% since implementing a new IT system to support
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Epic contract under review

Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS foundation trusts’ joint electronic patient record contract with Epic is under review, while
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When Derby met Harris

Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has built a bespoke portal with Harris Healthcare that it hopes will make the hospital
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Lamb ‘banging the drum’ for telehealth

Care minister Norman Lamb will be “banging the drum” for telehealth and telecare, trying to convince everyone in his path,
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Birmingham goes paperless in outpatients

Outpatient consultations at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust are almost entirely paperless following the introduction of a clinical portal,
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Consultant creates online patient tool

A consultant at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases has created an online patient assessment tool that could be
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Gwynne admits NPfIT mistakes

Shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne came as close as any politician is likely to do for apologising for the National
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Skunkworks opens up IT for debate

Healthcare communities need to take responsibility for establishing the interoperability of IT systems, said one of the speakers during the
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ResearchOne gets ethical approval

TPP’s new patient database has received ethical approval from the NHS Research Ethics Committee and the National Information Governance Board.
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