Archived News: November-December 2009

NMC/Regulatory Update; Preparing and administering the Pandemrix® vaccine ; Standards for medicines management - please update your copy ; New nursing education standards address the care of people with dementia

GP revalidation scheme calls for patients' views

HPC Update: Influenza pandemic; HPC position statement and general information

Live in Wales? Global spotlight on Map of Medicine - read more on your own eNWI page

Live in Scotland? Scotland opens almost paperless hospital See more Scottish news on your own Scotland Page

Live in Northern Ireland? New imaging system will provide real benefits for patients See this and more news on your own Northern Ireland page

Live in England? £130m for telecare and home help - read more news below or look on your own area page

Don't miss the Newsfeed for even more up to date news which is constantly fed in!

Publications and web sites of interest this month: Survey calls for IT to help deaf ; The Information Standard ; NHS 'must boost use of technology' ; Patient designed services 'could save the NHS £20bn' ; NHS facilities website launched ; NHS Wales Learning academy ; Summary of Responses to the Consultation on the Additional Uses of Patient Data

e-records this month:

Information Governance: Hundreds of records breached in Hull ; NIGB launches social care guarantee; Guernsey progresses InterSystems EHSCR ; Information quality mark launched ; Summary of Responses to the Consultation on the Additional Uses of Patient Data

Personal Health records: Tories promise records for all

England: Time savings reported on GP2GP ; East of England joins SCR roll-out ; Records key to prison health action plan ; NHS North East Essex prepares for EPS R2 ;

Wales: More clinical locations now live with the Welsh Clinical Portal

Northern Ireland: New imaging system will provide real benefits for patients

Scotland: Moray helps public get Health-e ; Scotland opens almost paperless hospital

'Metrics, Quality, Measurement and Monitoring' etc this month: Kelsey - info should be compulsory ; Great Lego in the waiting room ; King’s Fund: choice yet to drive quality ; PCT commissioners should exploit ‘soft data’ ; Patient safety reporting still fails to reach boards in 1 in 10 acute trusts ; NHS guidance providers win accreditation ; NHS boards must not misinterpret 'firm performance management' ; Conference: Using Patient Experience to Improve Quality of Care

Are you a prescriber? Conference: Prescribing for Success

Work in telephone consultation/telehealth? £130m for telecare and home help ; NHS Direct aims to become 'web first'

Work in primary/Urgent care? Fracture risk tool built using QResearch ; Discharge summary target 'to be missed'; CQC criticises discharge summaries ; Lorenzo Primary Care announced ; Great Lego in the waiting room ;
DH seeks views on replacement for QMAS ;