Archived West Midlands News: 2004 - 2008November 2008 Order comms go-live planned for Leicester New RCP Medical Record Keeping Standards web site October 2008 Leicester to use WinScribe digital dictation Community nurses get mobile access to iPM September 2008 Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project South Birmingham podiatrists first to get Lorenzo 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 Milton Keynes' CRS caused 'near melt down' Interested in Social Entreprise opportunities? FREE Social enterprise courses from Entreprenurses CIC (Derbyshire) June 2008 May 2008 Walsall to electronically tag paper records April 2008 Data recording may explain trust’s high death rate Study reveals savings using blood tracking Nottingham to implement Cisco medical network March 2008 Leicester Hospitals pioneer Stroke Alert System West Midlands Medicines for Children Research Network annual meeting NMC Education Road Show Friday 11 April - Birmingham - - Education Road shows - Case studies sought February 2008 Nuneaton Hospital web site updated Interesting interview with the CEO of Birmingham Foundation Trust January 2008 Pfizer partners with PCT on telephone care 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 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 Shropshire & Staffordshire Cardiac Network Heart of Birmingham to be first VoIP enabled N3 site 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. September 2007 August 2007 Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait Leicester upgrades Euroking Maternity System Community staff in Nottingham trial wireless record access '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. July 2007 CFH - Whats happening in your area First EPS release two trusts announced June 2007 Work in Education? FREE Workshop Improving the Recruitment of People of South Asian Background into Nursing on July 12th in Bradford Nottingham telehealth pilot underway ; FREE EVENT 3rd July Oxford: Faculty of Health Informatics Masterclass - Ten Ways to Succeed in Major Health Informatics Projects Interested in Thrombosis Prevention? See a new Developing Practice Micro-Site from Derby NHS FT May 2007 Patients are quizzed in County's biggest ever survey Nottingham buys CliniSys chemo prescribing solution April 2007 New wave of community hospitals and services Free workshops - Turn analysis into action. Help make data make a difference. March 2007 February 2007 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. January 2007 ASSIST / NHS CFH Annual Conference 'No-one said it was going to be easy' will be held at 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 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 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 Work in Primary Care and fancy a FREE Workshop in Birmingham on 17th October? See General Practice Nursing - Inspiring Primary Care 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 National Education, Training and Development (ETD) Special Interest Group Sheffield abandons iSoft iPM implementation Interview: Maeve Smith, Head of Principal Programmes and Platforms, Service Implementation Trusts urged to move faster with e-prescribing Are you a nurse or a midwife? Changes to the PREP standard from July 1st 'Open wide...' Why big business is being invited to run GP surgeries Take part in the current RCN Survey - Your e-health depends on IT Birmingham Trust Goes Live with New PAS 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. 'Unworkable' NCRS user policy to be replaced Birmingham and Solihull extends patient RFID tagging Interested 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 Improving diabetes care in Salford A computer test that nurses and all AHPs should have access to? The need for clinical standardisation in healthcare 2nd July 2004 : NPfiT launches WEB SITE 2nd July 2004 : eHealth Insider Reports: 2nd July 2004 : NPfiT More Choice & Control over Your Healthcare: 2nd July 2004 : Choose and Book is a national service 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/ 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 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 Do you live in the Walsall area? If so we'd like to hear from you - there are interested nurses and doctors in your area! |