MPs call for overhaul of quality framework
The Department of Health should revamp the Quality and Outcomes Framework to give more weight to health outcomes and less to activity, MPs have said.
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The Department of Health should revamp the Quality and Outcomes Framework to give more weight to health outcomes and less to activity, MPs have said.
The DH has announced it will give an extra £11m to ten of the 11 dental teaching hospitals in England, to help fund IT systems that will support the training of dental students.
NHS boards across Scotland are to share £1m to help them improve their IT security, beginning with securing USB ports.
Health IT specialist iSoft says it will launch its RadCentre radiology information system in the Netherlands this autumn.
NHS informatics professional body ASSIST has published a paper saying the original NHS National Programme for IT plan of a one size fits all approach “does not work”.
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, has implemented a wireless local area network (WLAN) supplied by French telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent.
The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust will introduce SRC’s WinScribe digital dictation systems in a bid to meet Department of Health sustainability targets and improve patient experience.
An online survey of UK GPs by the BMJ has revealed that one in five
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has deployed CLEO Systems’ electronic prescription system (EPS) across a
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has gone live with the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
More than half of acute trusts have signed up to the NHS federated data platform,
GP blood testing services across south east London have been restored following the cyber attack