Quality

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28 July 2008

Call for information investment in PBC groups

The NHS Alliance is calling for practice-based commissioning groups to be given the money to fund their own information needs.
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24 July 2008

NHS Direct wins award for prescription pilot

NHS Direct’s Evelina Children’s Hospital information prescription pilot project has been awarded the 2008 Ask About Medicines Award for ‘Excellence
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23 July 2008

St Mary’s delays go-live of CRS

The deployment of a London Cluster Release 1 Care Records System at the St Mary’s campus of Imperial College Healthcare
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23 July 2008

Act paves way for NIGB

The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent
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22 July 2008

Philips SpeechMagic Advanced launched in Finland

Royal Philips Electronics has released its speech recognition-based report management software, Philips SpeechMagic Executive Advanced (SMEA), in Finland. The software
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22 July 2008

SCR could hold ‘end of life’ plans

The Summary Care Record (SCR) could be used to share end of life care plans and resuscitation details, according to
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21 July 2008

NICE to overhaul QoF

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) is to be overhauled to focus on indicators which have the greatest impact on
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21 July 2008

Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals

University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a
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18 July 2008

Over 150 data losses uncovered in Wales

Fourteen computers have been stolen from NHS trusts in Wales in the last three years, a Freedom of Information request
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18 July 2008

Shropshire PCT implements electronic safety alerts

Shropshire County PCT has implemented the Datix Safety Alerts system to notify staff when any clinical incident happens. The Datix
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