Patient safety

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19 March 2009

E-Health Insider’s industry round up 19.03.09

This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. SpeechMagic
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17 March 2009

Hi-tech features in 150th CMO report

The chief medical officer’s annual report has highlighted the need for surgeons to be trained using simulation techniques. The report,
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16 March 2009

Report shows flaws in safety reporting

Trusts are failing to report patient safety incidents and to review their policies in response to known problems, a report
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10 March 2009

Trust incident reports published

The National Patient Safety Agency has started to publish patient safety incident reports from every NHS trust and local health
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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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20 February 2009

No routine use of SCR at Bolton A+E

Royal Bolton Hospital’s A&E department is viewing the Summary Care Record on a doctor-request basis only, according to an NHS
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17 February 2009

SCR access widens again

Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a
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12 February 2009

Follow my leader

In the latest feature from NHS Connecting for Health, Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Andrew Coley discuss the NHS Clinical
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4 February 2009

Wales to stamp out medical scrawl

Doctors and nurses in Wales are going to have to use stamps as well as their signature in a bid
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19 January 2009

Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system

Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of
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