Quality

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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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22 April 2009

Consultation into ethics of new technologies

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a public consultation on the ethical issues related to online healthcare, telemedicine and
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21 April 2009

What is in store for QoF?

The GP in charge of recommending changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework tells Sarah Bruce what is on the
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21 April 2009

Audit Scotland flags concerns with ECR

Scotland’s national audit body has raised concerns about the scope and quality of the country’s Emergency Care Summary. In its latest report
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21 April 2009

ICW works on New York e-prescriptions

German e-health firm InterComponentWare has partnered with the New York E-health Collaborative and Surescripts, the operator of the largest US
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20 April 2009

New robot to assist elderly at home

The RobuLAB French robotics specialist Robosoft and SRI International have demonstrated a new service robot designed to assist the elderly
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17 April 2009

NHS Choices to publish mortality rates

NHS Choices is to start publishing hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios on its website. The government’s flagship health site already publishes generalised
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16 April 2009

Audit Commission criticises data quality

A report published by the Audit Commission has concluded that data quality is still “often not what it needs to
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16 April 2009

King’s Fund launches primary care inquiry

The King’s Fund has launched an 18-month inquiry into primary care in England that will aim to produce a set of measures
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16 April 2009

Tories would ‘end monopoly’ of NHS Choices

The Conservative Party would remove NHS Choices from Department of Health control and force it to compete on the same
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