Safety

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1 September 2004

E-prescribing benefits flow for Liverpool hospital

Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust has announced the completion of e-prescribing in all but one of its in-patient clinical areas. 
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27 August 2004

Hull green lights A&E patient progress software

IT staff at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have developed an alert system for the A&E department that displays each
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17 August 2004

Electronic patient records secure Athens Olympics

Electronic health records are providing an important piece of security around the Athens 2004 Olympics, thanks to a collaboration between
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4 August 2004

Norfolk hospital gets electronic cancer care system

A hospital in East Anglia has installed an electronic cancer management system in its oncology department, which is designed to bring greater
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6 July 2004

Patient and clinical advisory boards to be replaced

A new Care Record Development Board (CRDB) is to be created to help ensure NHS IT helps deliver better patient
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23 June 2004

Combative Granger defends speed of IT reform

Richard Granger, Director General of NHS IT, has hit back at critics of his approach to implementing the national programme,
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3 June 2004

NPSA introduces intelligent incident analysis system

The National Patient Safety Agency has awarded the contract for its new analysis and content management to the Cambridge-based software
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25 May 2004

Report challenges hospital mobile ban

A new report on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in healthcare facilities challenges the wisdom of blanket prohibitions
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17 May 2004

GP systems need to improve safety features, says NPSA

The safety features of computing systems currently in use in about three quarters of UK general practices have clinically important
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11 May 2004

University Hospital Aintree wins pharmacy IT award

The pharmacy department at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool has won the 2004 First DataBank Guild of Healthcare Pharmacist Information Technology
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