Discharge letters

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21 June 2017

West Suffolk identifies data errors in discharge summaries

West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has identified technical problems in its Cerner EPR, known locally as e-care, leading to
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28 February 2014

Hinchingbrooke sends electronic letters

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust has reduced the time it takes GPs to receive trust letters from two weeks to
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18 June 2010

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
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16 February 2010

CQC raises discharge concerns

Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according
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19 January 2010

Call for Toolkit discharge standards

NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension
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11 December 2009

Stalis standalone e-discharge summary

Stalis has launched a clinical e-discharge solution to allow NHS trusts that do not have discharge summary functionality built into
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24 November 2009

Discharge summary target ‘to be missed’

The vast majority of NHS hospitals look set to miss the government’s target for delivering discharge summaries to GP practices
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16 October 2009

Cheshire trusts send e-discharge letters

Three acute trusts are delivering electronic discharge letters to almost 90 GP practices using a shared IT solution that plugs
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5 October 2009

Readers back reformed NPfIT

The National Programme should not be scrapped although it should be reformed, a major survey by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk
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23 September 2008

Consent to view explored for detailed records

The new consent to view model for the NHS Summary Care Record in England may also be applied to the
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