All Health Service Journal articles in 2003-03-27
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record of retainment
Staff retention for health informatics is poor.Now the NHS faces losing a key section of its workforce to private companies that could loan them back at higher rates.Steve Mathieson finds out what the NHS can do to secure employees
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Three-year wait for PCTs' prison stretch
Published: 27/03/2003, Volume II3, No. 5848 Page 10 11
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The Department of Health has finally announced the amount of money that will be available for the NHS national IT programme over the next three years.
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never mind the quality ...
Today's health service network is crying out for bandwidth to cope with the extra demands.An upgrade is coming, but, asks Jane Dudman, will it be enough?
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site impaired
Government departments have rushed to get online in time for the 2005 deadline, but the services offered are often unreliable, with broken links and little information. Steve Mathieson examines the state's websites
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Tag team: how RFID works
Radio frequency identification uses radio-sensitive tags, which can store data and be read at a distance, to identify objects such as people, animals, merchandise, vehicles and baggage.
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go with the flow
By introducing a tracking system, a hospital trust found it could ease the movement of patients from acute to non-acute beds. Jane Dudman reports
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your flexible friend
The current trend is for NHS IT procurements to be signed for no longer than three years, suggesting that policy makers envisage the national programme being rolled out in this timeframe. But while the policy makers (quite rightly) spend time defining the requirements of the national architecture, the challenges facing ...