Safety Archives

26 September 2008

The Department of Health has said that it will publish proposals for a single, national telephone number for urgent care

26 September 2008

Urgent and emergency care providers in England must share more data electronically if they are to improve services, the Healthcare

23 September 2008

The National Programme for IT in the NHS and hospital boards should put e-prescribing at the top of their agendas

23 September 2008

The acute sector can learn from primary care when it comes to deploying e-prescribing, a round table discussion has concluded.

22 September 2008

Primary care organisations that have stopped issuing medical record cards should reinstate the practice as a way of informing patients

22 September 2008

The National Patient Safety Agency has urged all NHS organisations in England and Wales to use the NHS Number as

10 September 2008

English Churches Housing Group has announced a major upgrade to its IT infrastructure to make it compatible with digital communication

28 August 2008

JAC Computer Services Ltd (JAC) has become the exclusive UK distributor of robotic medicines cabinets designed to improve medicines

21 August 2008

The latest 60 second interview features Nigel Beasley, the national clinical lead for hospital doctors at NHS Connecting for Health.

20 August 2008

Three NHS trusts in East Anglia have invested in blood tracking technology from Olympus. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals

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