Archived West Midlands News: 2004 - 2011

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

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
Leicester implements ‘interim’ order comms

Milton Keynes' CRS caused 'near melt down'

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

Choice on the buses

June 2008
West Midlands Darzi review out

May 2008
Our NHS, Our Future (England) LATEST:Video of highlights ; Leading Local Change published 8th May - West Midlands SHA Local Change Vision Document due 3rd June

Walsall to electronically tag paper records

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
CSC plans to integrate SystmOne into Lorenzo

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
Worcestershire connect to COIN for joined up working

Nuneaton Hospital web site updated

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

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
Dudley rolls out digital dictation

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
George Eliot go live with iPM

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.

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
Staffordshire PCTs hit retinopathy target

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
Remote storage secures data despite floods

CFH - Whats happening in your area

First EPS release two trusts announced

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

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
Figures reveal a high death risk

Patients are quizzed in County's biggest ever survey

Nottingham buys CliniSys chemo prescribing solution

April 2007
See whats happening in Connecting for Health in your area

New wave of community hospitals and services

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

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!

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 Leeds Town Hall on Tuesday 22^nd May 2007.

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

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

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

UKChip Presidents Report 2006

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

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

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

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

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/

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!