Archived East Midlands News: 2004 - 2008

November 2008
Leicester chooses McKesson for payroll

Order comms go-live planned for Leicester

New RCP Medical Record Keeping Standards web site

October 2008
Healthcare Interoperability Conference: Birmingham 30th October

SCR consent model changes

Dudley uses Soarian to identify infections

Leicester to use WinScribe digital dictation and Trust ditches 0844 number

Community nurses get mobile access to iPM

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

Healthcare Interoperability Conference: Birmingham 30th October

one-day event: 'Sharing and Planning Across Maternity Networks: How can we work together?'Warwickshire Racquets Club on 25 September 2008.

August 2008
Leicester implements ‘interim’ order comms

Milton Keynes' CRS caused 'near melt down'

Choice on the buses

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.

Darzi releases Final Report: High quality care for all

June 2008
East Midlands Darzi Review out

May 2008
Our NHS, Our Future (England) LATEST:Video of highlights ; Leading Local Change published 8th May - East Midlands SHA Plan due 5th June

Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system

Milton Keynes council deploy Liquidlogic ICS

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

Data recording may explain trust’s high death rate

Study reveals savings using blood tracking

Nottingham to implement Cisco medical network

March 2008
Plans for limited Lorenzo delivery slip

CSC plans to integrate SystmOne into Lorenzo

Leicester Hospitals pioneer Stroke Alert System

NMC Education Road Show Friday 11 April - Birmingham - - Education Road shows - Case studies sought

February 2008

Worcestershire connect to COIN for joined up working

Machine to give early warning of heart risks

Interesting interview with the CEO of Birmingham Foundation Trust

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

Pfizer partners with PCT on telephone care

New model for The Improvement Network (East Midlands)

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
Steam Cleaning due for all ambulances

New online collaboration tool for NHS staff

November 2007
Birmingham's City hospital goes live with iPM

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
Heart of Birmingham to be first VoIP enabled N3 site

Shropshire & Staffordshire Cardiac Network

'Inspire to Aspire: Organisational Development in Primary Care' is a free one-day conference hosted by the National Teaching PCTs Network. It will be held on Thursday 1 November at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.

PRIMIS+ Annual Conference 2007 – “In Search of Excellence: Quality in the Care Record” Nottingham 30th - 31st October

September 2007
South Birmingham Leads the Way on New Patient Records

August 2007
Leicester upgrades Euroking Maternity System

Community staff in Nottingham trial wireless record accessJuly 2007
Leicester's sexual health services best in region

CFH - Whats happening in your area

Remote storage secures data despite floods

First EPS release two trusts announced

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

Nottingham telehealth pilot underway ;

Work in Education? FREE Workshop Improving the Recruitment of People of South Asian Background into Nursing on July 12th in Bradford

Interested in Thrombosis Prevention? See a new Developing Practice Micro-Site from Derby NHS FT

FREE EVENT 3rd July Oxford: Faculty of Health Informatics Masterclass - Ten Ways to Succeed in Major Health Informatics Projects

May 2007
Figures reveal a high death risk

Patients are quizzed in County's biggest ever survey

Nottingham buys CliniSys chemo prescribing solution

April 2007
New wave of community hospitals and services

See whats happening in Connecting for Health in your area

Free workshops - Turn analysis into action. Help make data make a difference.

ASSIST / NHS CFH Annual Conference 'No-one said it was going to be easy' will be held at Leeds Town Hall on Tuesday 22^nd May 2007.

March 2007
Derby NHS Trust Implements EDRM Solution

February 2007
NMC Update! NEW Draft NMC Code out for Consultation Be SURE and have your say! You've got until March 2nd

Day Of Action 3 March 2007 Rally for Midlands to be held o utside Birmingham Council House in Victoria Square , Birmingham from 12 pm onwards.

Day Of Action 3 March 2007 Rally for Midlands to be held o utside Birmingham Council House in Victoria Square , Birmingham from 12 pm onwards.

Interested in telecare? Great opportunity - Intelligent Housing: new and emerging technologies for home based healthcare delivery, a Seminar to be held on 21 February 2007 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull

January 2007

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

Neonatal 'cot locator' launched in Birmingham

Birmingham PCT extends electronic incident reporting

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

Work in education? Read about the NHS-HE Forum

Redundancies may include IT staff says Coventry PCT

Leicestershire PCTs saving approx £2m from clinical IT

Sheffield abandons iSoft iPM implementation

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

North Staffs announces 'big bang' implementation

CMO highlights e-health initiatives

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

Birmingham Trust Goes Live with New PAS

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

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

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