The National Health Service (NHS) in England has ambitious plans to drive innovation in health information technology (HIT) to improve patient safety, quality and cost effectiveness. Acute trusts are complex socio-technical systems that are required to implement a number of large information ...
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Biology, politics and performance management: Tackling healthcare-associated infections in the NHS in England The study of infection is a fascinating biological interaction between microbial populations and human populations with a variety of influencing factors linked to human behaviour. This includes the...
T he National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is a Special Health Authority formed in 2001 to improve patient safety in the NHS across England and Wales. Currently, it has a budget of just over 15 million. The NPSA was created following the publication of two key reports by the Chief Medical...
NHS England is the regulator – it sets the policies and processes that are expected as performance standards, but it doesn’t own the mechanism, Friend says. The best way to implement changes can differ from one local Trust to another, depending on specific factors. “The hospitals and t...
Perceptions of chief clinical information officers on the state of electronic health records systems interoperability in NHS England: a qualitative interview study Article Open access 12 August 2023 The value of connected health information: perceptions of electronic health record users in Canada Artic...
The [Caldicott 2] Review Panelfound “that commissioners do not need dispensation from confidentiality, human rights & data protection law.” Neither do our politicians, their policies or ALBs. [1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/tsd/ig/ig-fair-process/further-info-gps/ ...
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom 3Public Member, Cambridge, United Kingdom *these authors contributed equally Abstract Background: The adoption of patient portals, such as the National Health Service (NHS) App in England, may improve patient engagement in ...
“Given only about 20 per cent of our health outcomes are determined by clinical care, it’s really important that we start to look at other factors influencing our health and well-being”, says Emily Hough, Strategy Director for the National Health Service (NHS) England and NHS Improvement....
The NHS in England has a central licensing arrangement with Microsoft – called an Enterprise Agreement - which provides software licences to all personal computers (including desktops and laptops) for specific core Microsoft products across all of the NHS organisations in England, including Primary ...