Patient safety

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11 July 2006

Doctors test out RFID system for handovers

Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers.
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6 July 2006

Patient safety becomes priority for NHS IT

The NHS National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has worked with Connecting for Health to build a rigorous system of safety
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3 July 2006

Sealed envelope safety risk raised by BMA

Doctors have raised concerns that Connecting for Health proposals to allow patients to hide some information in sealed envelopes puts
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27 June 2006

Anti-fraud software extended to all NHS acute trusts

A pilot scheme that detected nearly £1m of duplicate and fraudulent payments by the public sector has been extended to
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21 June 2006

City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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18 May 2006

PACS underway in half of English trusts

Around half of trusts in England either have a picture archiving and communications system “happening, about to happen or happened”,
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2 May 2006

Victoria signs with Cerner

Australia’s state of Victoria has selected Cerner as its latest healthcare IT partner. The value of the deal was not
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11 April 2006

Academics call for NPfIT technical assessment

A group of 23 computer science academics from around the UK have written an open letter calling for an “independent
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10 April 2006

Space programme

One of the most intriguing aspects of the NHS IT programme is the HealthSpace project, the online patient portal. Daloni
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24 March 2006

NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets

Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure
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