Nursing

Archive
18 August 2004

Nurses get wireless access to cancer records

The Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Merseyside, has installed a wireless nursing information system that allows bedside access to patient records.
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6 July 2004

Patient and clinical advisory boards to be replaced

A new Care Record Development Board (CRDB) is to be created to help ensure NHS IT helps deliver better patient
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22 June 2004

Radical Steps highlights serious concerns about NPfIT

The National Programme for IT is still failing to communicate what it will deliver, when it will deliver, and what
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2 April 2004

Nurses in the dark on IT developments, survey reveals

UK nurses are generally positive about NHS IT developments, but over three quarters have received little or no information about
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5 February 2004

Healthcare IT awards finalists announced

IT applications in a wide variety of healthcare settings are represented by seven finalists for the 2004 Healthcare IT Effectiveness
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19 January 2004

Research points to serious issues in EPR acceptability

A group of researchers at the University of Brighton spent two years looking at how electronic patient records were developed,
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3 December 2003

Technology can reduce or create medication errors

  Technology has the potential both to reduce and to create new types of medication errors – and should be
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27 November 2003

Internet has blown away library walls

The Internet has blown away the walls of libraries as effectively as Semtex, Dr Muir Gray, director of the National
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7 October 2003

Patients positive on ICRS but worried about security

Patients are positive about the government’s planned Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS), but cautious about security issues and unhappy about
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18 September 2003

Wirral Connects to Online Bed Vacancy Service

Wirral residents and care homes are set to benefit from a new online service designed to simplify the process of
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