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Chester aims at discharge summary target

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has introduced software from Medisec to meet NHS targets for the delivery
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Standards set for the structure of medical records

Profession-wide standards for medical records in hospitals have been agreed for the first time.
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Getting records up to standard

NHS Connecting for Health and the Royal College of Physicians talk about the new standards issued for records in the
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Great Ideas

Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust’s Shanaz Sohal and Jo Murfett discuss its blood tracking pilot.
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Data exchange needed for urgent care

Urgent and emergency care providers in England must share more data electronically if they are to improve services, the Healthcare
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E-prescribing round table report

The National Programme for IT in the NHS and hospital boards should put e-prescribing at the top of their agendas
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NHS Number Safer Practice Notice issued

The National Patient Safety Agency has urged all NHS organisations in England and Wales to use the NHS Number as
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JAC to distribute robotic medicines cabinets

  JAC Computer Services Ltd (JAC) has become the exclusive UK distributor of robotic medicines cabinets designed to improve medicines
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London pharmacies use SMS for stop smoking drive

Pharmacies in London are to use text messaging to launch a smoking cessation campaign and offer customers support to kick
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EHI’s news roundup 21.07.08

E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week beginning 21 July 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly
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