Archived Eastern News: 2004 - 2010

September 2008
See the new eHealth Nurses Network Survey Feature! This is a new addition (this month we're looking at e-records) - we will be feeding back results on these pages - plus we'd like to hear what you think are the key eHealth elements in need of investigation from your viewpoint. Please take part and help us trial this feature

Colchester manager sacked over lost laptop

East Anglia trusts invest in blood tracking

Eastern Paediatric Epilepsy Network

August 2008
Barking goes-live with EuroKing maternity system

Interested in Social Entreprise opportunities? FREE Social enterprise courses from Entreprenurses CIC (Derbyshire)

July 2008
'Swindells' Health informatics review is published and NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems as a result of the NHS Informatics Review.

Fujitsu may lose southern NHS PACS deal

Darzi releases Final Report: High quality care for all

June 2008
Fujitsu exit may hinder trusts on 18-week waits and Primary care following Fujitsu

May 2008
Our NHS, Our Future (England) LATEST:Video of highlights ; Leading Local Change published 8th May - East of England SHA Local Change plan published: Towards the best, together - East of England SHA launches Our NHS, our future vision

Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system

April 2008
This month's NMC/Regulatory Body Update;The new Code is available now to read and download

March 2008
Plans for limited Lorenzo delivery slip

CSC plans to integrate SystmOne into Lorenzo

Great Yarmouth GPs use pathology e-requesting

February 2008
Bedford uses PDAs to track maintenance jobs

January 2008
CSC fined £5m for late delivery of PAS systems

There'scurrently a very important opportunity to have your say on the Lord Darzi review Our NHS, Our Future - open until 15th February - please take part NOW!

December 2007
Patients book X-rays themselves

New online collaboration tool for NHS staff

One day event on 6th December at the Rowley Mile Conference Centre, Newmarket Suffolk about The future of the Natio

November 2007 nal Programme for IT. 6th December There will be a Q&A session and Breakout sessions.

Work as a School Nurse or with Children? 11 - 17 year olds willing to give their opinion about electronic health records sought by RCN for new survey

October 2007
Stoke Mandeville taps into spinal software

September 2007
Interested in being involved in PBC? See Practice Based Commissioning Toolkit for Nurses

August 2007
Barnet and Chase Farm switch on Cerner

Mid-Essex integrates systems in just 4 weeks

July 2007
First EPS release two trusts announced

CFH - Whats happening in your area

UCL Blends Expertise to Re-Launch MSc Health Informatics

June 2007
CSC says iSoft deal not in 'best interests' of NPfIT

May 2007
Ipswich installs first national programme iCM

April 2007

CSC deploys first community PAS in Eastern cluster

New wave of community hospitals and services

Interested in Research Skills? Two day RCN Research Society course at Addenbrokes 24th/25th April

See whats happening in Connecting for Health in your area

Series of Study days at the Royal Marsden - 'Bridging the gap: from care to computer' - How Nursing Diagnosis can help you and your teams through the implementation of the Electronic Patient Record - Not to be missed!

March 2007
Funding axed for ambulance IT system

February 2007

NMC Update! NEW Draft NMC Code out for Consultation - Until March 2nd - BE SURE and have your say!

Day Of Action 3 March 2007

January 2007

NORTH Essex Mental Health Partnership Trust, is the first of its kind to achieve level two standard in the clinical negligence scheme for trusts, CNST.

NMC Update January 2007: The NMC's Chief Executive, Sarah Thewlis, will be speaking about the future direction of nursing at the New Connaught Rooms in London on Tuesday 23 January 2007; Current on-line poll: Should student nurses and midwives be regulated? - add your vote!

December 2006

Map of Medicine are to pilot a PDA-based version of their evidence-based clinical pathway information system for the first time in the UK. - in Essex and Wales

Interested in e-records and confidentiality? See the Caldicott Guardian Manual The BMA have issued information and guidance for doctors and GPs threaten to block national patient database and Hackers make us scared to e-file, say GPs . The artricle Local sealed envelopes 'probably safer' contains a link toan interesting document on Sealed Envelopes Also see new Childrens Databases Report

November 2006

NHS IT project aims for 120 major installs by April

LSPs fail 'acid test' on PAS deployments

Milton Keynes implements WinPath pathology system

Work in education? Read about the NHS-HE Forum

CSC wins £1.9bn contract for North-east and Eastern

CFH Eastern Cluster Case Studies available to read on-line

Accenture winds down acute hospital trust work

National Education, Training and Development (ETD) Special Interest Group

Interview: Maeve Smith, Head of Principal Programmes and Platforms, Service Implementation

UKChip Presidents Report 2006

Trusts urged to move faster with e-prescribing

Huge Cash Boost For Community Hospitals

e-Learning Version of the Step Guide to Workforce Planning available free

Work in Primary Care? See GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) - June 2006 update and First meeting of GP Pan User Group /GP Pan User Group debates data migration ALSO are you interested in developing the HCA role in your surgery? See the HCA toolkit plus interesting European Conference

Are you a nurse or a midwife? Changes to the PREP standard from July 1st

Take part in the current RCN Survey - Your e-health depends on IT

'Open wide...' Why big business is being invited to run GP surgeries

Interested in collaborative e-learning? Why not attend this Symposium: Sustaining Communities, Supporting Processes on 22-23 June at the The Møller Centre, University of Cambridge

Cancer patients at an Essex hospital are to receive better healthcare and shorter waiting times thanks to the planned utilisation of innovative communication systems.

CEO appointments made to new SHA's - read about who's who in your new SHA

Send your comments to The Information Centre which is responsible for reducing bureaucracy through effective coordination of collections, elimination of duplication, and delivering efficient and effective information sources to enable service delivery improvements for service users regardless of the point of delivery

Keep up to date with CFH nurse matters on the Connecting with Nurses web page.

Bedfordshire and Luton opt for CareNotes system

'Unworkable' NCRS user policy to be replaced

Birmingham and Solihull extends patient RFID tagging

nterested in what information should be collected in order to demonstrate cross agency health gain? See this latest DoH Consultation The deadline for responses is Monday May 5th.

Sir Nigel Crisp steps down from DH

Interested in caring for clients in their own homes? Visit Telecare 2006 11 May 2006 at the Britannia Hotel, Coventry

Work with children? See the Report 'Passing it on' - the Children's Rights Director's report on what children think about people who work with them passing on confidential information to each other.

Interested in issues around care records, confidentiality, access etc for adults and children? See GPC says summary care record must be 'opt-in' and see Demographic service poses security risk, say senior GPs and GP calls for judicial review of NCRS consent and Personal Data for Public good

Dr Foster, a commercial provider of healthcare information, and the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have formed a new public-private partnership with the aim of improving public access to information.

A computer test that nurses and all AHPs should have access to?

A new version of predictive risk software to help identify patients most at risk of emergency hospital admissions has been released

The need for clinical standardisation in healthcare

Creating Tomorrow Whilst Managing Today: Transitional Arrangements In The NHS and Department of Health

The National Workforce Group has produced a best practice strategic framework to promote the adoption and deployment of e-learning within the NHS

June 2005: RCN/NPfiT (CfH) Eastern Event See the presentations

2nd July 2004 : NPfiT launches WEB SITE
See: http://www.npfit.nhs.uk/

2nd July 2004 : eHealth Insider Reports:
The National Programme for IT has unveiled a new website, featuring a host of detailed information about the programme and its implementation - but the "Your Say" section, where a public discussion forum had been planned, was removed shortly after it appeared. See
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=785

2nd July 2004 : NPfiT More Choice & Control over Your Healthcare:
is at the very heart of the Government's vision for the National Health Service (NHS) in England. It will mean major changes for the NHS and bring benefits both to you and to those who work in the NHS. This leaflet describes the changes and the benefits that computers and information technology will create through the work of the National Programme for IT. See:
http://www.npfit.nhs.uk/docs/patient_leaflet_final.pdf

2nd July 2004 : Choose and Book is a national service
that will, for the first time, combine electronic booking and a choice of time, date and place for first outpatient appointment. By the end of 2005 it will be available to all patients in England requiring elective care (over 10 million each year). See http://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk/default.asp

10th June 2004 : Short Case Study Examples of Digital Recording in Primary Care in Dorset and Voice Recognition Software in Radiology in Norfolk & Norwich
What could be useful in your practice area? See:
http://www.voicescene.com/case.htm

10th June 2004 : Prepare yourself and your clients for the MyHealthSpace access method of the future!
HealthSpace is a secure place on the internet where you can store all your personal health information. (NB HealthSpace is an online service provided by the NHS in England. It is provided for the sole use of people living in England. It is for use by persons over the age of 18 only). See
https://www.healthspace.nhs.uk/

10th June 2004 : National Programme for IT (England) web-page:
See latest Update on NPfit at
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/InformationTechnology/

5th May 2004 : Great Opportunity To Get Involved in Developing Nursing Needs With NPfiT Cluster in Your Area!!
We have received a request for nominations to Southern / London Cluster Joint Process Expert Groups (JPEGs). The priority groups/areas currently are:
- Care management: (PAS, ADT, TCIs, management reporting, etc)
- Order comms and scheduling
- Clinical documentation and correspondence - (includes assessments)
- Mental Health/ CPA
- Older people /SAP
- Childrens Services
- Primary Care
- A&E
- Theatres
- Maternity

If you would like an general overview of the NPfiT see this very useful Southern Cluster Document:
A Brief Vision of the Future with NPfiT for NHS Staff

If your specialty is in any of the above areas and you would like your name to go forward please let us know 1st April 2004 : NMC: Understanding the Code Seminars:
regularly held in your Region - Keep checking what's going on and note the dates in your diary! See
http://www.nmc-uk.org/nmc/main/events/$professionalAdviceSeminars

March 31st 2004 : Are you looking for help with finding a home in Essex? See Keyworker site at: http://www.moat.co.uk/

March 31st 2004 : Live in Norfolk or Suffolk? - Keyworker site is:
http:// www.orbit.org.uk/ofs

March 31st 2004 : Live in Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire? See
http:// www.keyhomes-east.org.uk

30th March 2004 : The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) who's won what in our area??
See: http://www.top-consultant.com/uk/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=4335

Would you like to connect with an active RCN Group?
If so we'd like to hear from you - there are interested telephone consultation nurses in your area!