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Health care records service delayed

News The priority now is to finish developing and deploying care records systems that will help NHS Trusts to achieve the programme's intended benefits of improved services and better patient care. The NHS and suppliers are working together now to...

Tags: records, connecting for health, nhs

[16 May 2008]

NHS puts brakes on electronic record system

News There was resentment among some staff that CfH had forced a tightly managed timetable on the primary care trusts for implementing SCR "despite the immaturity of the technical solutions". The NHS has pledged to halt the further roll out of its...

Tags: nhs, cfh

[14 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment Certainly when it comes to IT it's easier to think of the public sector as a series of small businesses - departments, quangos, NGOs, NHS trusts, police forces - that occasionally work together but more often work against each other, cynics would...

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

GP patient record system hits latest target

News During the roll-out, practices have received training on GP2GP software, either from the suppliers or - in a small number of Primary Care Trusts - by local training staff. More than a third of doctor's surgeries in England have now adopted an...

Tags: cfh, nhs, gp, roll

[27 Feb 2008]

NHS Community Health Trusts Use Windows Powered Handheld PCs for Full Access to Patient Information

whitepaper NHS Community Healthcare Trusts are responsible for primary and secondary community care for patients with medical and psychological problems. NHS Trusts are now able to give each mobile worker full access to patient records that are critical to...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[19 Feb 2008]

The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust Provides Quick and Easy Access to Critical Information

whitepaper The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust is one of 600 NHS Trusts. The Trust needed a system that provided effective document management as well as effective content management. With more than 35 clinical specialties and more than 40 departments...

Tags: web content management

[08 Feb 2008]

BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban

News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...

Tags: data loss, blackberry, mod, government

[04 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News The ongoing data loss fiasco in government continued with a raft of new breaches being revealed across government departments and NHS Trusts. Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues prompts many people into looking for a new career or job and...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Gov't fails to keep court data locked up

News Last week saw other government blunders come to light, such as the loss of more than 4,000 patient details by primary care trusts in Stockport and Oldham. The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches...

Tags: loss, procedures, questions, details

[23 Jan 2008]

Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops

News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...

Tags: mod, government, security, whitehall

[22 Jan 2008]

Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records

News Last week also saw other government blunders come to light, such as the loss of more than 4,000 patient details by primary care trusts in Stockport and Oldham. Names, passports details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence details...

Tags: mod, ico, security, data loss

[21 Jan 2008]

Thousands more UK patients' details lost

News The lapse come in the wake of the loss of hundreds of thousands of patients' records by nine NHS trusts in December. The security of information held by the NHS suffered a further blow after the loss of another 4,000 medical and personal details...

Tags: data, breach, nhs, conditions

[18 Jan 2008]

Confusion over Granger's NHS departure

News The rollout of the Pacs digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England was also completed in December. Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS' £12.4bn flagship IT programme and the timetable for the...

Tags: cfh, hospital, nhs, emergency services

[15 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

whitepaper One of the largest National Health Service Trusts in the UK, Guy's and St Thomas' comprises two teaching hospitals: 8,000 staff provide emergency and specialist treatment to 750,000 patients a year. Five million people call Guy's and St Thomas...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[10 Jan 2008]

Tech key to vital healthcare savings

News The NHS says only 0.6 per cent of people approached have so far opted out of the SCR system, despite revelations last year patient information had been lost by nine NHS trusts. Technology will be key to tackling Europe's burgeoning health service...

Tags: nhs, savings, ec, european

[09 Jan 2008]

SMS reminders help NHS tackle forgetful patients

Case Study The Patient Care Messaging (PCM) software, which is made by healthcare application developer iPLATO, is being used by 24 NHS Primary Care Trusts to enable GP surgeries to send automatic and targeted appointment and health reminders to patients by...

Tags: doctor, sms, text, message

[07 Jan 2008]

NHS completes Pacs digital x-ray project

News The NHS has completed a project to rollout digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England as part of the £12.4bn national NHS IT programme. More than 473 million images have been stored using the technology, which cuts the...

Tags: nhs, pacs, reporting, health

[27 Dec 2007]

NHS trusts outsource financials and procurement IT

News A consortium of NHS trusts and Strategic Health Authorities in the north of England has outsourced its financials and procurement IT in a contract worth £16.45m over 10 years. Called the North East Patches Shared System Group (NEP), the consortium...

Tags: outsourcing, shared services, nhs, programme

[21 Dec 2007]

NHS Trust Reduces Perimeter Security Servers by 66 Per Cent

whitepaper Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust was one of the first organisations to connect to N3, the new broadband link delivering key services electronically to NHS Trusts in England. As part of this project, Salisbury needed to replace its existing firewall...

Tags: application servers

[18 Dec 2007]

NHS network pilot to cut call costs

News Connecting their individual voice networks to the NHS N3 network could help hospital trusts across the UK cut their phone bills. London trusts are being offered free connections to the N3 Local Gateway Service - allowing them to call each other for...

Tags: nhs it, voip, n3, pilot

[06 Dec 2007]

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