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News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Robin Dargue Royal Mail Ted Woodhouse, ex-IT director of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust went even further in his condemnation of the artificial nature of MBAs. Ted Woodhouse, Ex-director of IT, Leeds Teaching... [19 Aug 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust (RUH) has stopped the deployment of the Cerner Millennium electronic care records system - part of the £12.7bn national NHS IT modernisation programme. A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it... [22 Jul 2008]
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Gets ROI From SurfControl Software in Just Months
White Paper The NHS is no different to any other organisation when it comes to its increasing reliance on the Internet. Like all businesses that provide Internet and e-mail access the array of problems that unmanaged use can pose are serious risks to the... [03 Jul 2008]
Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID
News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector The wireless network was installed in May 2007 by... [28 Apr 2008]
Photos: Scottish NHS trials video checkups
Photo In 2005, representatives from NHS Grampian presented the "booth concept" at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh with universal approval from clinicians. The Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) is trialling video... [08 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08
Round-Up Glad you asked - the MoD has announced it has lost a laptop containing the personal information of about 600,000 people who have joined or expressed an interest in joining the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Royal Marines. [25 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News A question mark hangs over which postal carrier handled the discs, as the Royal Mail cast doubt on its involvement saying: "We have not been given any indication by the Ministry of Justice that [the data loss] has anything to do with Royal Mail. [23 Jan 2008]
MoD admits to more laptop thefts
News Names, passports details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence details, information on family, doctors' addresses and NHS numbers were included on the Royal Navy laptop stolen on 9 January. Speaking before parliament he confessed the theft... [22 Jan 2008]
Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records
News The data related to people who have joined or expressed an interest in joining the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force. The MoD admitted the breach on Friday following the theft from a Royal Navy recruitment officer's car in Edgbaston in... [21 Jan 2008]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo By 2010, these electronic records will be accessible in any of the 299 medical and 181 dental Defence Medical Services (DMS) centres which the MoD runs around the globe, as well as field hospitals and 25 Royal Navy ships. [02 Aug 2007]
David Burden
CIO Profile Burden is also on the UK NHS commercial advisory board, the e-Skills UK CIO board and the HP cross-industry global advisory board, as well as being a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. What they say about him: "With British, French, Canadian... [06 Jun 2007]
Home care moves into the 21st century
News While visiting London's Royal Free hospital yesterday, Hewitt said the new system is helping doctors "do what they do best - treat patients faster and better". Richard Granger, head of Connecting for Health - the DoH agency in charge of the NHS IT... [23 May 2007]
Nurses want tablets on repeat prescription
News Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust was the first hospital in Europe to trial the C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) - which was developed by Intel and Motion Computing - and was officially launched today. [21 Feb 2007]
Handsfree communicators speed up hospital work
News The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in Truro is using handsfree BT Managed Vocera VoIP communicators (see below for a photo of the devices in use). Simon Goodwin, director of IT services for the Cornwall NHS Community, told silicon.com: "If you... [16 Nov 2006]
PDAs and laptops help nurses dispense drugs
News Back in August, a Royal College of Nursing survey found anger among nurses at a perceived lack of consultation about these plans - with just 12 per cent of the 4,451 nurses surveyed saying they felt adequately consulted. [15 Nov 2006]
