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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]
Flagship NHS Hospital Chooses Symbol Spectrum24 Wireless System
White Paper The Royal Hampshire Hospital claims to be the only hospital in the UK so far to have one integrated clinical record per patient. The Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester has implemented a Symbol Spectrum24 wireless local area network (WLAN... [03 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 Get the latest public sector news straight to your... [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". Hewitt said new gadgets aren't just about specialist innovations in hospitals but about... [23 May 2007]
BT VoIP plays doctors and nurses
News The system has also been deployed in the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and at hospitals in Minnesota. Doctors and nurses in the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are ditching the traditional phone and pager for a voice over IP... [23 Feb 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]
