Opinion
Calling time
Will NPfIT deliver this time? Sarah Bruce asked some IT directors for their views.
Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
Has the bar been dropped so low that the NHS IT programme is now guaranteed to succeed? Asks Jon Hoeksma.
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NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards for the Emergency Care
Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety
The Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety was won by NHS National Services Scotland for the Emergency Care Summary. The runners up were

Technology must enhance, not detract from, clinicians’ interactions with patients
The NHS needs to prioritise the delivery of agile, intuitive systems that enable clinicians to

EPRs must adapt to the changing healthcare landscape
As healthcare evolves, so too must the electronic patient records at its heart. This means

Driving healthcare innovation with both patients and the planet at heart
The NHS Long Term Plan seeks to mainstream digitally-enabled care across all areas of the

Transforming NHS procurement: how good data holds the key to integrated care
Evidence-based decisions on spending require a system that can handle data from multiple sites and

Underpin the vision for primary care-led services with better data
‘Hard to quantify’ primary and community care has been overlooked for too long. That could