All Health Service Journal articles in 13 December 2007 – Page 3
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HSJ Knowledge
Useful documents and websites on the IT programme
Information for health (1998)Delivering 21st-Century IT Support for the NHS: a national strategic programme (2002)National Audit Office Value for Money Report: the National Programme for IT in the NHS (June 2006)Health select committee report on the electronic patient record (including link to the government's response) (September 2007)NHS Connecting for HealthChoose ...
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National IT programme timeline
March 2002: A new direction for NHS IT announced, based on national standards and procurement from a limited list of suppliersJune 2002: The Department of Health publishes the IT strategy Delivering 21st-Century IT Support for the NHS: a national strategic programmeOctober 2002: Richard Granger appointed director general of NHS ITDecember ...
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National IT programme glossary
NHS CfH: NHS Connecting for Health is the government agency that runs the national IT programmeNPfIT: the national programme for IT is responsible for digitising the NHSEnterprise-wide agreement: a deal for the whole NHS with a commercial software provider such as Oracle or MicrosoftGPSoC: GP systems of choice, a programme ...
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Jenny Rogers on treating your staff well
One of the sheep/goat divides in human nature is whether those in senior roles are pleasant and courteous to the apparently ordinary folk who serve them.
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The right direction in medical training
Wider experience of primary care would create a more rounded learning experience for student doctors, suggest Chris Barrett and Andy Knapton
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Comment
David Woodhead on looking to the French for public health cues
Tackling obesity means watching how - and not just what - we eat. French eating habits could be a good example for the UK
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Secure care: improving life in locked wards
The latest specifications for housing patients in medium secure care clarify the rules and include welcome proposals to improve life in locked wards. Rebecca Norris reports
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Productive ward: making time to improve patient care
Frontline staff will be able to devise their own strategies for spending more time with patients under productive ward. Alexis Nolan reports
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HSJ Knowledge
National IT programme briefing
It has been called the world's biggest civilian computer project. It has cost billions so far, has billions more to spend and is not even close to delivering the aims set for it in 2002. The national IT programme is, it would be fair to say, controversial.
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Comment
All Our Yesterdays
10 December, 1954, Hospital and Social Service JournalArticles of handicraft made by blind people had been exhibited in Middlesex, said the Journal this week. All the work exhibited had been done by blind people who 'owing to age or infirmity or for some other reason, were not able to engage ...
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Comment
This week's looky likey
Sussex Partnership trust chief executive and HSJ columnist Lisa Rodrigues writes to say: 'Having been outed as a lookey-likey for Delia Smith I am sensitive to the impact of such attention. But it would be a shame to miss the chance to point out the similarity between HSJ’s third most ...
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GP2GP
It’s a scenario familiar to all GPs: a patient with complex problems registers with the practice and has a crumpled list of their drugs. Their notes come through six weeks later, with a faded printout accompanied by handwritten sheets and numerous hospital letters.Clinicians in the new practice have to do ...
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News
Intelligence NIBS
Intelligence NIBSLondon ITAs part of the NHS London Programme for IT six of the capital's mental health trusts are now using computerised patient record systems, installed by BT in its capacity of local service provider for London. New systems have been installed in North East London, West London, South West ...
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Intelligence NIBS
London ITAs part of the NHS London Programme for IT six of the capital's mental health trusts are now using computerised patient record systems, installed by BT in its capacity of local service provider for London. New systems have been installed in North East London, West London, South West London ...
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News
news & opinion
CommentWelcome to the latest issue of Intelligence, the quarterly HSJ supplement dedicated to innovation, information and technology.In this issue we look at how new health portals are helping drive the choice agenda and improve health outcomes. A number of recent website launches are offering up easy to access information and ...
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Website launch
Many’s the GP that has lamented the invention of the internet as yet another terrified patient comes into the consulting room with a print off and an outlandish self-diagnosis.But there’s more to the internet than dodgy medicine as a raft of new websites launched over the course of this autumn ...
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Lyn Whitfield on patient portals and information
There have been some interesting developments in health portals in the past few weeks. Over in theUSA, Microsoft launched HealthVault: a free site – paid for by advertising – that allows users to store personal health information and inputs from medical devices, and choose who to share the data with.By ...
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E-procurement strategy / launch.
Lyn WhitfieldImproving data quality and getting systems to work together are more or less the first issues to arise whenever IT is discussed in the NHS. They apply as much to commercial systems as to clinical ones.Yet the health service has tended not to take a common approach when it ...
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News
Is evidence based policy making dangerous?
Alan MaynardThere is a dangerous new rhetoric in Whitehall with politicians describing their policies as 'evidence based'. If this description were true it would be cause of great celebration. However sadly it often is synonymous with a political desire to con the public.The Darzi report in October offered some wonderful ...
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Emergency admissions
A great deal of media commentary is based on the analysis of figures forEngland. The assumption is that everything is the same in other four countries that make up theUnited Kingdom. However, I felt it was time to test this assumption. This analysis looks at the relatively simple issue of ...
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