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Community pharmacies play a big role in treating alcohol misuse, but their valuable services are under threat of being decommissioned permanently It's Alcohol Awareness Week ( 19-25 November ), so there is no better time to discuss the role that services play in identifying and treating people with...
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George Eliot hospital NHS trust is considering outsourcing services to Circle, which already runs Hinchingbrooke hospital A Warwickshire NHS trust is in talks with potential partners over the possible privatisation of some hospital services. The George Eliot hospital NHS trust, based in Nuneaton, said...
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Specially trained paramedics to assess whether they can treat patients out of hospital in plan to improve 999 response rates East Midlands ambulance service trust is piloting a new project that allows specially trained paramedics to decide whether patients should be treated at home, or referred to a...
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Staffordshire county council plans to transfer 1,000 adult social care employees to NHS to create the UK's biggest integrated health and social care provider Staffordshire county council plans to transfer nearly 1,000 adult social care staff to the NHS in what will be the UK's biggest integrated...
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Failings were found in many of those involved in Mid Staffordshire but it was also a total system failure, says Shaun Lintern who has reported on the story since it began More than two years after the scandal of poor care at Stafford Hospital was exposed the reverberations from what happened there are...
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Improved approaches to clinical data have allowed the trust to monitor mortality rates and manage treatments more effectively Business intelligence tools can provide useful clinical and performance data, but this has not always translated into information that can be acted on to improve services. Typically...
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Former health secretary and chair of health select committee says that better use of IT will help eliminate waste in the NHS, reports Gill Hitchcock When the Audit Commission published its review of England's NHS this summer and warned of growing financial pressures, trusts already knew that achieving...
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Software firm Alert will no longer deploy its electronic patient solution at CircleBath Hospital Circle Health and Alert have "mutually agreed to end their partnership", it has been revealed. The Portuguese software firm had a contract with private healthcare provider Circle Health to implement...
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East Midlands trust advertises 15 year informatics deal which may involve other NHS organisations University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) trust is looking for a commercial partner to transform IT and communications for itself and other local health service organisations. It has published a framework...
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Patient data from primary care and mental health should be available to acute trusts, says head of foundation trust The health service will continue to have gaps in its knowledge on patients, stopping it from providing them with the best and safest service, until it joins up all its data on each individual...
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Job moves: chief executive Jeff James leaves Wiltshire and Bath primary care trust cluster while QEH King's Lynn appoints Patricia Wright as boss Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals foundation trust has said that its chief executive Nik Patten has left "to pursue career opportunities elsewhere"...
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Staff at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire trust accidentally dropped medical records in public bin University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire trust breached the Data Protection Act by twice losing patients' medical records, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said...
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Foundation trust has developed MyHealth web portal for patients with long term conditions University Hospitals Birmingham foundation trust has set up a web portal which allows patients with long term conditions to access their health records. MyHealth, which was developed by the trust's IT team,...
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National Programme for IT supplier refunds most of an advance received from the government in April Computer Services Corporation (CSC) has returned £170m to NHS Connecting for Health , reports The Register. The NHS made a £200m payment to CSC on 1 April this year, intended to cover the projected costs...
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Electronic rostering systems are helping trusts cut back on temporary staff, as well as reducing fines for breaching working time rules Electronic rostering systems can bring efficiency and fairness to staff rostering as well as massive savings on agency staff spending. Community and mental health provider...
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