Archived Eastern News: 2004 - 2010
May - June
Mid
Essex goes wireless to blast bugs
Kainos
launches EDMS from Ipswich trial
April-May 2010
Hillingdon
implements Imprivata OneSign
March-April 2010
NHS
North East Essex set to launch SCR
February - March 2010
Southend
signs CIS Oncology deal
Lorenzo
'will stop at Release 2'
December 2009
East
of England joins SCR roll-out
NHS
North East Essex prepares for EPS R2
Ipswich
chooses Kainos for casenotes
October
South
West Essex buys BI from 21c
September 09
Trisoft
adopts Mid Essex pre-op module
August
NMC/Regulatory Update; Student
guidance - available from September ; Contacting
the NMC by post during the CWU industrial action: delays to the postal
service ; Read the latest NMC
News
GMC
interactive e-learning site - what do you think of this?
HPC Update: August
HPC In Focus
July
NHS hospital
franchise plan gets green light ;
June
London
RiO upgrades remain on hold
May
Live
Webinar Thu 28th May 2009Making Time to Care
TPP
named as CSC strategic solution
April
Southend
secures email with Proofpoint
North
East Essex runs pilot with Tunstall
March
NHS
Brent gets PBC support
February
Free Seminar in London March 4th Enhancing
end-user adoption of IM&T within the NHS
HPC UPdate: 8
listening events to be held in the Greater London area during March -
sign-up online
Cerner
gets green light in London
DH
and London move on shared services
NHSmail
on track for London
Brent
PCT rapped over data loss
Demonstrators
make slow progress
January 2009
Local
PCTs to be Summary Care Record 'Fast Followers'
December 2008
Consent
to view to get first test
November 2008
New
RCP Medical Record Keeping Standards web site
October 2008
More than
100,000 people across the East of England are set to feel the health benefits
of a £3.9 million investment
SCR
consent model changes
Basildon
and Thurrock tightens security
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
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!
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