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6 May 2011

Babywatch monitor system launched in UK

A baby identification system that uses mobile technology has been launched in the UK.
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23 February 2011

Hospitals still failing on wristbands

Several major hospitals are failing to generate and print standardised wristbands for their patients.
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22 October 2010

Coding for Success makes slow progress

A review of the impact of a report calling for the wider use of coding and tracking technologies in the
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17 November 2009

Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011

The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that
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4 November 2009

EU study uses RFID to track medicine

The BRIDGE (Building Radio Frequency IDentification for the Global Environment) project has successfully concluded its three year initiative to research,
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3 July 2009

MPs back technology for patient safety

MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve
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2 June 2009

Bristol wristbands use GS1 coding

NHS trust improves patient safety by adopting national coding standards for its new printed wristbands.
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5 March 2009

NPSA Never Events policy welcomed

A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing
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6 January 2009

Procurement blocks innovation: report

The Policy Exchange has attacked the government for not doing enough to drive innovation in the NHS and called for
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26 June 2008

GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’

Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to 'scan and save'.
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