What is the coming year likely to hold for NHS and IT? And what will that mean for marketers, companies and trusts working with healthcare technology? Highland Marketing looks ahead. Lyn Whitfield, strategy and content director, on NHS finance and policy in 2018 The NHS received a five-year financial settlement […]
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Cindy Fedell, CIO, Bradford Teaching Hospitals: Data migration, matters
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has just gone live with a Cerner Millennium electronic patient record in a joint deployment with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. Data migration was a key part of the project, and one that other organisations can learn from, says chief information officer Cindy […]
King’s roll-out Q-Pulse from Ideagen
King’s Interventional Facilities Management (IFM) is working with Ideagen to roll-out its Quality Management System, Q-Pulse. King’s IFM is a Limited Liability Partnership controlled by King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KCH) and provides fully managed services including procurement, equipment and the supply chain for diagnostic and treatment facilities for the Trust. […]
PwC survey says majority of public have never accessed their own health records
In a survey last month from PwC asking 2001 UK Adults, the results found: 80% of UK public have never accessed their health records and 88% of them don’t know how 92% of people happy for health records to be shared between different parts of the healthcare system Concerns remain […]
Newcastle is first for Fujifilm FDR nano
Nuffield Health, radiology department in Newcastle-upon- Tyne has chosen the Fujifilm FDR nano. The company says the unit looks nothing like any other mobile x-ray unit and said it’s small size conceals uncompromising image quality and functionality. Amanda Cumersdale, Radiology Manager at Nuffield Health Newcastle. “The staff love it. The […]
Healthcare websites and other non-NHS services to be awarded quality ratings for the first time by CQC
The Department of Health has confirmed that it will grant the Care Quality Commission (CQC) the power to rate even more healthcare services, such as those that offer medical advice and prescriptions from GPs online, so that this becomes the default way that the regulator presents the judgements from its […]
NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands CSU secures £14m contract
NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands (GEM) Commissioning Support Unit has been appointed to provide both corporate and GP IT services on behalf of seven Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Essex. The service will fall into two areas: corporate IT support including strategic planning and operational delivery; and GP IT […]
NHS Digital encourages additional information to be shared
Every four seconds a health or care professional accesses a patient’s Summary Care Record (SCR), which contains important details from GP medical records, such as their medication, allergies and adverse reactions, to support care. NHS Digital said “additional information, including long-term health conditions, medical history and immunisations can also be […]
HTN December 2017 Newsletter
Here we highlight the news we brought you this month: In December we reported Devon Doctors, which provides primary care across the county, and Earl Mountbatten Hospice on the Isle of Wight have successfully joined the HSCN in the past month. People across Devon and Cornwall can now download a […]
Our most-read news of 2017
It was a fantastic year for us, we covered 389 stories over the year and increased our network to over 9,000! Thank you to everyone who has followed us and here we cover our most-read for the past 12 months: January Leicester’s Hospitals successfully deployed a new electronic patient […]
