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Blackpool pushes back Alert
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has pushed back the go-live of its trail-blazing Alert electronic patient record system until 10 September.
NHS ordered to halve management costs
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at least Ā£222m in management costs this year.
SCR uploads to continue during review
Summary Care Records will continue to be created and uploaded to the Spine while the programme is under review but no new patient information campaigns will be launched, EHI Primary Care can reveal.
InterSystems triumphs in Welsh labs deal
InterSystems is set to be confirmed as the winner of a national contract to provide a new laboratory information management system across Wales.
Ipswich develops stroke data portal
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has developed its own software to enable staff to record patient data for stroke patients from multiple disciplines.
Oasis and Worcs ‘drag and drop’ patients
Oasis and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust have developed a real time bed management system that allows staff to virtually ‘drag and drop’ patient information using a touch-screen whiteboard.
Pancreatic cancer online tool assesses risk of inheriting disease
Pancreatic Cancer UK has launched an online tool for families who have lost a loved
Helen Thomas and Dr Malte Gerhold to speak at Rewired 2025
Helen Thomas and Dr Malte Gerhold are the latest speakers to be confirmed for Digital
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā
Today’s Coffee Time Briefing covers the ongoing decline in people applying for healthcare jobs and
‘Patient died after GP surgery took three days to respond to email’
The Department of Health and Social Care and SSP Health must take action to improve
PM pledges move to a ‘digital NHS’, following Lord Darzi report
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged a move āfrom an analogue to a digital