Patient safety

17 July 2008

NHS Supply Chain awards wristband contracts

NHS Supply Chain has announced that eight suppliers have been chosen to provide patient identification wristbands to hospitals in England

1 July 2008

RFID risk to hospital equipment claims study

Radio frequency identification could seriously affect life-saving equipment leading to hazardous situations for hospitals, Dutch scientists have claimed. A report

26 June 2008

GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’

Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to 'scan and save'.

29 May 2008

DH funds collaborative ICT research

Information and Communications technology features in five of the seven partnerships which are receiving a share of the £64m research

22 May 2008

Over a million patients seen without records

A poll of NHS acute trusts indicates over 1.2m outpatients in England are seen each year without the clinician having

1 May 2008

Trafford gets Cameron’s vote

Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust tell EHI how their BT e-Health Insider award caught David Cameron's eye.

1 May 2008

McKesson launch whiteboard monitoring system

McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Visibility McKesson has launched its Horizon Enterprise Visibility product – a whiteboard style system that provides real

29 April 2008