Manchester Care Record adds end-of-life plans

Manchester is incorporating ‘end-of-life’ care plans into its shared records scheme.
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E-discharge: standard clinical headings required by Dec

All NHS providers must send digital discharge summaries to GPs using standard clinical headings by December this year, the new
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Hospital transparency league table published

NHS improvement has published a league table of NHS trusts according to their openness and transparency.
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Healthcare IT appointments in brief

This month's round-up covers new chief information officer appointments Lewisham and Greenwich, Sandwell and West Birmingham and Morecambe Bay NHS
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£55m to increase e-Referral uptake

NHS England has set aside £55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to increase the uptake of electronic referrals to
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Sheffield links £12m shortfall to Lorenzo implementation

Challenges with booking and reporting patient activity following the implementation of Lorenzo at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are contributing to major
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Berkshire to share patient records with Graphnet

Seventeen health and social care organisations across Berkshire will share the care records of 855,000 patients using CareCentric software from
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Ray takes up HSCIC director of data science role

Informatics specialist Daniel Ray will be the new director of data science at the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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Royal Devon still in discussions with Epic

A Devon trust is still in negotiations with Epic about buying its electronic patient record system - nearly two years
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Healthcare IT industry news in brief

This month’s round up includes: a new site for the NHS and SMEs on working together, a specialist e-prescribing deployment,
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