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US hospital deploys acute care electronic health record solution
NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tennessee, US, has chosen Allscripts’s Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM), an acute care electronic health record (EHR) solution, to help boost the facility….
Care in crisis 2012
This report reveals that this year spending on older people’s social care in England has fallen by £500 million and the funding gap is growing.
It projects that by 2012-2013 the government would need to spend £1bn more than this year to stop the situation getting any worse….
Improving access to NICE approved drugs
NICE is to produce a best practice guide to help trusts develop local formularies, as part of a move to ensure that all patients in England have access to clinically and cost-effective drugs.
Local formularies provide a list of selected or preferred drugs available to local prescribers and have an important role in underpinning safe and effective use of medicines.
However, there is currently no standard...
Amendments to health and social care bill published
The government has tabled a series of amendments to the health and social care bill in advance of its report stage in the House of Lords, which begins next week.
Health minister Earl Howe has tabled a number of amendments designed to reaffirm the government’s commitment to putting patients at the heart of the NHS and handing power to GPs and nurses….
Emergency day surgery: Improving productivity and reducing bed days
This case study is about improving the management of patients with minor emergency surgical conditions (principally abscesses) by assessing them and admitting them if possible as emergency day cases the following day. This should save bed days and avoid unnecessary fasting for patients.
Patients referred by GPs or attending the emergency department with minor emergency surgical conditions are assessed...
Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare
The Department of Health has published a discussion paper which explores personal health budgets for people receiving NHS continuing healthcare.
This is aimed at healthcare professionals who will have a specific role in this initiative or are considering the future implementation of personal health budgets….
NHS to get £28m cash boost to improve access to dentists
Secretary of state for health Andrew Lansley has announced extra cash for dentistry in a major government drive to increase the number of people able to access an NHS dentist.
820,000 more people have already been given access to an NHS dentist since May 2010….
One is such a lonely number
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Nuffield Health deploys new diagnostic ultrasound system
Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital in the UK has deployed the ACUSON S2000 diagnostic ultrasound system from Siemens Healthcare….
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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with over 1 million patient contacts every year.
Queen Mary Hospital's mission is to provide patient-centred high quality service to the community in an effective and efficient manner by optimum utilization of available resources, through the concerted efforts of satisfying patients' needs, facilitating staff's motivation and inviting public participation;