Safety

Archive
2 June 2009

Bristol wristbands use GS1 coding

NHS trust improves patient safety by adopting national coding standards for its new printed wristbands.
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29 May 2009

Walsall first with Horizon Visibility

Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to go-live with McKesson’s new Horizon Enterprise Visibility patient
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18 May 2009

Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient

Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when
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14 May 2009

Open all hours

NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider
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14 May 2009

Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety

The Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety was won by NHS National Services Scotland for the Emergency Care
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7 May 2009

Lone NHS workers get safety alarms

The Department of Health has announced that 30,000 lone NHS workers are to get personal safety alarms incorporating location tracking
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30 April 2009

Social care to use NHS Number

The Department of Health has announced that the NHS Number can be used in social care to link social care
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22 April 2009

Network resilience is a CERT

An EU agency has called for governments to set up a single Computer Emergency Response Team to improve the resilience
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22 April 2009

Dutch Patient Safety Company targets UK

The largest clinical governance software specialist in the Netherlands has announced it is looking to sign its first UK clients.
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22 April 2009

HL7 and IHTSDO sign agreement

Health Level Seven, the international healthcare IT standards body, has partnered with the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, a
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