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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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EMAS answers 20 per cent more calls with Mitel

East Midlands Ambulance Service has coped with a 20% increase in calls while maintaining its emergency call answer times by
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Team spirit

At last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards, a virtual team won team of the year, sponsored by NHS Connecting for
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LAS system crashes again

The London Ambulance Service computer system crashed for nearly two hours on one of the busiest nights of the year
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Airwave cuts ‘will not affect ambulances’

Airwave has said that staffing cuts will not affect its ability to deliver new radio communications to ambulance services by
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NHS Pathways go national

The Department of Health has given ambulance services approval to use NHS Pathways to offer alternative services to callers who
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SCR access widens again

Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a
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Airwave on tube but few ambulances

The Airwave radio network has been rolled out on the London Underground and has been presented as a step forward
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Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’

Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’
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On the right pathway

The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health looks at the work of the award winning NHS Pathways team.
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