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27 August 2010

Auditors want action on poor records

The Audit Commission has called for “co-ordinated effort” by Royal Colleges, NHS organisations and regulators to improve record keeping in
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25 February 2010

Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS

The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in
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24 February 2010

Mid Staffs report demands stats overhaul

An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an “impeccably independent and transparent
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30 December 2009

That was the year that was: 2009

A look back at a year of healthcare IT.
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16 December 2009

And statistics

Dr Foster and the CQC have both come under fire for how they rate hospitals. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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30 November 2009

Hospital IT ‘does not cut costs’

Computerising hospitals delivers a small improvement in quality but does not cut costs, according to a study published in the
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17 November 2009

Once more with feeling

Jon Hoeksma talks to Kate Grimes, chief executive of Kingston Hospital NHS Trust, about its impending go-live with Cerner Millennium.
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11 November 2009

The Rotherham slams ‘unhelpful’ SHA

Brian James, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, has said its strategic health authority threatened it with a “double whammy” of
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27 October 2009

Swedish pilot fights fake medicines

Siemens IT Solutions and Services and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) have launched a medicine coding
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19 October 2009

Quality street

Richard Hamblin reflects on Mid Staffordshire and the future of data analysis.
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