Quality

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20 May 2015

Digital Health profile: Trisha Bain

Medway NHS Foundation Trust has become the first in the country to appoint a chief quality officer to its board.
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20 January 2014

Joe’s view: of a Vision and 12-point plan for CCIOs

Joe McDonald explains why the CCIO Leaders Network is launching a new vision for chief clinical information officers and a
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
23 April 2013

HSCIC creates quality indicator library

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is creating a library and repository for quality indicators to reduce duplication and
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14 March 2013

Physician heal thyself

Dr Lawrence Weed, leading champion of health IT for 50 years, says the practice of medicine remains unscientific because knowledge
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25 November 2010

King’s Fund urges caution on choice

The government should be cautious about patients’ ability to make use of information to choose hospitals, the King’s Fund has
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14 June 2010

Guardian publishes death rates on blog

The Guardian has released data on death rates following vascular surgery onto its datablog. The newspaper carried out a large-scale
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27 May 2010

EPR cuts Middlesex GUM treatment times

Researchers at Central Middlesex Hospital have found that the implementation of an electronic patient record system in the genito-urinary medicine
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26 January 2010

King’s Fund warns on quality measures

Greater use of quality indicators in the NHS could be a powerful tool to improve care, but could also lead
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30 December 2009

EHI’s top stories: 2009

Nobody will ever be able to say that the NHS went un-warned about the tough financial times ahead. One of
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30 November 2009

Hospital IT ‘does not cut costs’

Computerising hospitals delivers a small improvement in quality but does not cut costs, according to a study published in the
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