Patient safety

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9 October 2008

Great Ideas

Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust’s Shanaz Sohal and Jo Murfett discuss its blood tracking pilot.
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26 September 2008

Data exchange needed for urgent care

Urgent and emergency care providers in England must share more data electronically if they are to improve services, the Healthcare
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23 September 2008

E-prescribing round table report

The National Programme for IT in the NHS and hospital boards should put e-prescribing at the top of their agendas
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22 September 2008

NHS Number Safer Practice Notice issued

The National Patient Safety Agency has urged all NHS organisations in England and Wales to use the NHS Number as
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28 August 2008

JAC to distribute robotic medicines cabinets

  JAC Computer Services Ltd (JAC) has become the exclusive UK distributor of robotic medicines cabinets designed to improve medicines
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31 July 2008

London pharmacies use SMS for stop smoking drive

Pharmacies in London are to use text messaging to launch a smoking cessation campaign and offer customers support to kick
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21 July 2008

EHI’s news roundup 21.07.08

E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week beginning 21 July 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly
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17 July 2008

NHS Supply Chain awards wristband contracts

NHS Supply Chain has announced that eight suppliers have been chosen to provide patient identification wristbands to hospitals in England
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1 July 2008

RFID risk to hospital equipment claims study

Radio frequency identification could seriously affect life-saving equipment leading to hazardous situations for hospitals, Dutch scientists have claimed. A report
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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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