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In Brief: 'mismatches' causing problems
In her annual report, chief inspector of social services Denise Platt has said 'mismatches' between local authority and primary care group boundaries are causing problems - particularly in highly populated areas such as London.
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In Brief: Christie Hospital trust
Crowds attending the Royal Horticultural Society flower show at Tatton Park, Cheshire, threw £9,000 into a collecting urn for Manchester cancer centre the Christie Hospital trust.
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In Brief: guaranteed national levels of service
The NHS Information Authority has guaranteed national levels of service from NHSnet following an upgrade of its messaging service. The deal - involving an amended contract with Syntegra, the messaging arm of BT - guarantees delivery times, free one-stop support services and access to a national web-based e-mail address book ...
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In Brief: Local NHS performance information
Local NHS performance information is to be published on the Internet by the end of the year. All local NHS organisations will be obliged to provide web-based information on how health and social care services are performing, together with details of how to access local services such as GPs and ...
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In Brief: Sharing Clinical Information in the Primary Care Team project
A pilot project designed for sharing information between health and social care has been established by the national Assembly for Wales.
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In Brief: telemedicine solutions
Paediatric consultants at Guy's and St Thomas' in London are using telemedicine solutions from Agilent Technologies to transmit paediatric ECG data across NHSnet. Digital data can be transferred to video to allow specialist diagnosis of congenital heart conditions. The link has been established between Guy's and West Suffolk trust, but ...
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In Brief: WirelessMed launched
Doctors.net.uk, the online medical community, has launched WirelessMed, the first wireless application protocol service to link directly to Medline.
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Make or break
Was it worth the wait? HSJ opens its six-page analysis of the NHS plan with the Commons announcement - a crucial day for the government, as Laura Donnelly, Tash Shifrin, Lyn Whitfield and Kaye McIntosh report
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NHSnet funding boost
A chunk of the £60m IT Budget money allocated to the NHS will go towards speeding up new information technology, particularly communications via NHSnet.
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Plans for pay system and bonuses take flak
Talks on a new pay system for the health service have stalled, while the NHS plan's proposals for 'cash incentives' for staff performance have sparked union anger.
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Think radically on debt, beleaguered HA told
A 'radical rethink of management and accountability issues' is needed at debt-ridden West Surrey health authority, according to a report by an independent advisory panel.
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In Brief: Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority is overseeing consultation on the creation of two primary care trusts for East Hampshire and Portsmouth City, the second of which would involve changes to current primary care group boundaries to align the PCT with local authority boundaries.
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In Brief: Asset management system
Harlequin Software Consultants, providers of financial systems to over 80 trusts, have launched an asset management system to add to their accounts receivable, cashiers, charitable funds and patients' money. It allows users to keep track of all capital assets held within the trust, log all movements, view a history, run ...
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Short Cuts: 'One in three' in rural areas experienced poverty
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report has concluded that one in three people in rural areas experienced poverty at some time between 1990 and 1996, but the problem was masked by 'apparent affluence', making social exclusion 'harder to address'. It says increasing gentrification in the countryside and policies to cut down ...
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In Brief: need for collaborative approaches
A procurement review of NHS IT has stressed the need for collaborative approaches and agreed national standards.
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Ambulance staff get better links
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance trust has agreed a contract with NTL for installation and maintenance of an advanced communications network.
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Review for NI acute services
An independent review of acute hospital services in Northern Ireland is underway as part of a plan to develop health and personal social services published this week.