Archived News: February 2005Reid announces £95 million pound boost for e-booking & patient choice GP's urge rethink on Choose and Book reports eHealth Insider. NPfiT Confident of securing GP support Patients
in GP Surgeries access their electronic records by thumbprint developing
work done which achieved an ISABEL launches new January 2005 version of their clinical decision support system New LIFT web site offers a window on seven exciting projects in the North Nottinghamshire LIFT project 10 organisations shortlisted for the 2004 Leadership in Health Informatics Accolade Scheme Read the Department of Health's policy to support self care released
in January 2005: Nurses - STILL TIME to have your say! The NMC are holding a consultation on a proposed framework for standards for Advanced Practice. There is a questionnaire and explanatory document - see http://www.nmc-uk.org/ Closing date 28thFebruary 2005 Unhappy with the way the Department of Health communicates with the NHS? Input your thoughts into their Questionnaire Freedom of Information. Your right to know how to complain Work in Mental Health? Chief Nursing Officer announces plans for new framework for mental health nursing also see Electronic mental health record goes live in Wirral Work in paediatrics/neonatal care? Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust has gone live with a new child health system supplied by McKesson that will provide detailed electronic health record for children plus Device to save premature babies uses technology to predict signs of distress and organ failure Darlington opens new nurse led walk-in centre which is to be based around shareable electronic records reports eHealth Insider Patients can stay off the NHS database reports the Guardian See the news/events-press releases section at the University of York where a team of researchers from three universities is studying how nurses use IT when making clinical decisions - this includes Prodigy Work in Wales? Thank you to all of you who have completed Contact Forms to date - keep getting in touch with us all of you nurses in Wales - see your updated All-Wales eHealth Nursing Group web page for the latest. Your co-ordinating committee continues to beaver away hard on your behalf. And don't forget there is still time to complete the All Wales Clinician Survey and do still get yourself registered with Informing Healthcare itself at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/ Work in England? see the Medix 08 - npfit response and read eHealth Insider's report on new clinical representative groups. Remind yourself of the current 'Who's Who' at NPfiT and CRDB and see the latest issue of 'Making IT Work' (from NPfiT) at www.npfit.nhs.uk Regular NPfiT operational situation updates (relating to SPINE, Network (N3), Choose & Book and SAP in England) now available on web site at www.npfit.nhs.uk/
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