Quality

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4 November 2009

King’s Fund: choice yet to drive quality

The government’s choice policy has yet to be fully implemented and has yet to drive quality in the NHS, a
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22 September 2009

Data quality held to quality account

The Department of Health wants NHS organisations to publish details of their data quality as part of its plans for
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17 July 2009

Data added to clinical indicators

The Department of Health and The NHS Information Centre have published the data for more than 200 indicators against which
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3 July 2009

MPs back technology for patient safety

MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve
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3 July 2009

DH to review hand-held devices

The Department of Health is to review the market for hand-held devices for community-based staff, with a view to issuing
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30 June 2009

Community quality indicators launched

The Department of Health has launched more than 70 proposed quality indicators for community services alongside six guides to transforming
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17 June 2009

Perot to help implement Meditech at Rotherham

US health software firm Meditech has announced that Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has selected its 6.0 Health Care Information System
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16 June 2009

EU Network set up to share human samples

An ambitious €170m network linking European biobanks and related information resources to connect researchers across the continent is to be
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15 June 2009

Money, money, money

The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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15 June 2009

GPs told to harness IT innovation

GP practices are being encouraged to harness innovative IT services to improve the quality of care they deliver to patients.
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