Wristbands

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4 April 2013

Nottingham deploys Bloodhound

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying MSoft’s blood tracking system.
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28 February 2011

Never events list demands wristbands

All organisations providing NHS care will be required to provide their patients with standardised printed wristbands or risk not being
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23 February 2011

Hospitals still failing on wristbands

Several major hospitals are failing to generate and print standardised wristbands for their patients.
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8 July 2010

Great Ormond Street barcodes wristbands

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has rolled out barcoded wristbands from Dakota Healthcare. The wristband system, which
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17 February 2010

Trusts ‘ignore patient safety alerts’

A patient safety charity has alleged that around three quarters of NHS trusts have failed to comply with at least
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17 November 2009

Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011

The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that
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5 November 2009

Third of trusts miss wristband deadline

The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to
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14 September 2009

St George’s wants Cerner for Xmas

St George’s Hospital NHS Trust in South-West London has taken a strategic decision to try and begin using Cerner Millennium
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17 August 2009

NPSA: unsure if wristband target met

The National Patient Safety Agency has said a technical problem means it is unable to establish whether its target to make sure that all
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5 August 2009

Dartford uses Itanium as bridge to EPR

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is taking forward plans for an electronic patient record system by putting a new hardware
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