Patient safety

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16 December 2009

NHS needs better trained prescribers

Doctors are to be formally tested on their knowledge of medicines before they graduate, it has been announced. The British
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8 December 2009

DH mandates incident reporting

The Department of Health has confirmed that it will end the voluntary system for reporting patient safety incidents to the
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30 November 2009

Dr Foster names safety underperformers

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient
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26 November 2009

Expert view: Andy Bratt

The chief executive officer of Graphnet Health discusses ‘next generation interoperability’
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24 November 2009

Discharge summary target ‘to be missed’

The vast majority of NHS hospitals look set to miss the government’s target for delivering discharge summaries to GP practices
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19 November 2009

UnitedHealth buys ScriptSwitch for £50m

ScriptSwitch, the provider of drug comparison software to doctors’ surgeries, has been acquired by UnitedHealth UK, for a reported sum
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17 November 2009

Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011

The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that
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5 November 2009

It’s cold out there

Malcolm Newbury of IHE UK says it’s time to break out of Groundhog Day and find a new way of
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5 November 2009

Third of trusts miss wristband deadline

The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to
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26 October 2009

Great Ormond Street completes JAC EPMA

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has become the first paediatric hospital in the UK to complete a
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