Patient safety

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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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18 May 2009

Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient

Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when
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14 May 2009

Open all hours

NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider
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14 May 2009

Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety

The Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety was won by NHS National Services Scotland for the Emergency Care
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22 April 2009

Dutch Patient Safety Company targets UK

The largest clinical governance software specialist in the Netherlands has announced it is looking to sign its first UK clients.
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21 April 2009

Audit Scotland revisits meds management

Scotland’s national audit body has urged the Scottish Government to encourage health boards to take up a national Hospital Electronic
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9 April 2009

The NHS Number

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Julie Tindale, national clinical lead for the NHS Number Programme, discusses
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8 April 2009

Mandatory incident reporting considered

The House of Commons Health Committee is looking at whether the national reporting of patient safety incidents should be made
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23 March 2009

Healthcare Commission calls for better early warning systems

The Healthcare Commission has said that early warning systems on patient safety incidents, which highlight key issues on quality of
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20 March 2009

PACS group demands action on NHS Number

Why isn’t it compulsory to use the NHS Number as the primary identifier for patients in England, just as the
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