All Acute care articles – Page 416
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Lyn Whitfield on being over 30
I attended an IT conference recently at which the keynote speaker told me I could never be a 'digital native' because I was over 30 and hadn't grown up texting.
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Reports that took three days - now done in five minutes
Although it is known for its high standards of quality, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals trust has struggled to meet the new demands for fast, accurate information, particularly to support payment by results.
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Intelligence - news in brief
Mobile monitoring system keeps closer eye on mistakesSpecialists in e-working at Coventry University have developed a programme that uses mobile technology to allow staff to report mistakes immediately. The researchers at Coventry got together with health software providers Savant to develop a personal digital assistant system to help improve safety ...
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National critical care networks conference
The 2008 national critical care networks conference will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leedson 15 April under the banner One Step Beyond: quality critical care beyond comprehensive critical care.
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National critical care networks conference
The 2008 national critical care networks conference will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leedson 15 April under the banner One Step Beyond: quality critical care beyond comprehensive critical care.
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New basic skills programme launched
NHS Connecting for Health is to drop the European Computer Driving Licence service in favour of a new Essential IT Skills Programme.
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Paul Robinson on the waiting times initiative
The NHS is often used as a generic term, but in reality it consists of four different services in four countries. In my last column, I examined surprising differences in the growth of emergency admissions in the four countries. This time we will look at an issue that has had ...
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Notes on a scandal: electronic records
The row over summary care records rages on, but what do patients in pioneer areas think about them and do they fear invasion of privacy? Lyn Whitfield visits Bolton to find out
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Equality duties
Despite the scathing and sceptical reaction from the press, the decision to implement a policy which provides for seriously ill Muslim patients to have their beds turned to faceMeccais a sensible and pragmatic action.It comes in response to the positive equality duties which are now imposed on NHS trusts in ...
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Engaging clinicians in NHS leadership
John Clark and colleagues report on a project that aims to break down bunker-like regimes and involve medical staff in trust leadership
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The benefits of picture archiving technology
The national IT programme is proclaiming a triumph at last, says Lyn Whitfield
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CMI
A new report suggests that organisations in the health sector have a misplaced confidence about their ability to cope with uncertainty and change.The survey, carried out by the Chartered Management Institute, shows that, of the top concerns raised, only 51 per cent of organisations in the health sector believe that ...
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Comment
Trevor Ludlam on
The National Programme for IT was established to deliver front-line systems and services that would deliver major benefits for NHS organisations, staff and patients. Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service has been steadily turning the vision of integrated information, communication and technology into a reality.Having just retired as director of Nottinghamshire Health ...
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The information highway
Two doctors are transforming the way in which the NHS collects and uses data, says Daloni Carlisle
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Patient reports are simple and useful
Despite all the data flowing around the NHS, the question of whether the patient feels better after a procedure is an extremely difficult one to answer. Some clinicians keep their own records, but more often than not they are interested only in whether what they did was successful from their ...
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'Pay for performance' could be next, says NHS medical director
The NHS medical director has warned managers of the national clinical audit programme that they 'must deliver' or they could lose their contract.
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Council opposes East Sussex maternity plans
Changes to maternity services in East Sussex have been put on hold after the county council's health scrutiny committee referred the plans to the health secretary.
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Unison takes Monitor to court in wake of income cap silence
Unison has launched judicial review proceedings against foundation trust regulator Monitor in a bid to stop trusts using arm's-length organisations to expand private patient work.
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Bromley Hospitals trust fails cleanliness spot check
Bromley Hospitals trust has been rapped for breaching the hygiene code after a Healthcare Commission spot check.
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Sexuality - stamping out discrimination in the workplace
Equality campaigns in health and social care have often overlooked the issue of sexuality and it is time that this changed, says Blair McPherson