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Dienstag, 26.05.2026
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  • UK: NHS patients choose hospitals through local libraries

    New Choice Booklets will help patients make choice

    Lord Warner today announced a new library pilot project alongside new choice booklets to help patients make more informed choices in their healthcare. This comes at a time when more PCTs are offering choice and new choice booklets become available in all 152 PCTs in England.

    The Partnership for Patients project will allow members of the public as well as under-represented groups such as members from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) community, older people, rural communities and people with disabilities to access choice of health provider through their local library.

  • UK: NHS promotes e-records

    The NHS IT programme, Connecting for Health, has unveiled the first stage of a communications campaign promoting the electronic care record

    Every member of staff in the NHS is being targeted under a national campaign involving 1.3m information booklets, the Connecting for Health programme announced on 19 September 2005.

    The campaign, involving a booklet, film and posters, focuses on the Care Record Service (CRS), which is due to go live next year. Strategic health authorities and trusts across England are to be responsible for distributing the information to NHS organisations and employees.

  • UK: NHS records pilots set to run

    Concerns over access to patient information leading to compromises

    The first pilots of the national electronic health records system will go ahead in the spring, against a backdrop of compromises over patients’ security concerns.

    The control of access to centrally-held information has been an ongoing issue for the £6bn National Programme for NHS IT (NPfIT). Login to the database is controlled by a high-security smartcard and only clinicians with a ‘legitimate relationship’ will be able to see health data.

  • UK: NHS Saves £4.5m in E-Auction For IT Hardware

    A group of NHS trusts have achieved potential savings of nearly 30 per cent on this year's bill for IT Hardware via an on-line auction.

    In conjunction with Collaborative Procurement organisations, a two-hour e-auction, organised by the Office of Government Commerce's Coordinated Procurement Division and run by TradingPartners saw 11 IT hardware suppliers battle to get the business of 137 NHS Trusts, grouped into six regional consortia. Between them, these consortia account for nearly a third of all the desktops and laptops needed by the NHS over the next 18 months.

  • UK: NHS shunned by local authorities’ egovernment drive

    Britain’s local authorities are not enthusiastic about electronic co-operation with the NHS, according to a recent survey.

    The survey of local-government organisations, by the telecoms firm NTL, found that local-government bodies see “joined up working” with other public-sector organisations such as healthcare and education as a low priority, despite the emphasis being placed on it by central government.

  • UK: NHS spends millions on websites that fail patients, says government report

    Leaked review suggests many of NHS's 2873 sites do not cater for vulnerable members of public

    The NHS spends up to £86m a year on thousands of websites that are difficult to find, badly designed and irrelevant to patient needs, according to a leaked government report.

    The Department of Health's digital communications review, circulated internally in June, identified 4,121 NHS websites – but noted that more than 1,000 were no longer accessible. Almost a third of the 2,873 live NHS websites had "at least one notable deficit in standards" with confusing navigation or poor content.

  • UK: NHS staff 'demoralised' over IT

    Local health trusts are so uncertain about the NHS IT programme that they are deterred from implementing key systems, says a new report

    The Connecting for Health NHS IT programme risks failure because local staff feel disengaged, according to a British Medical Journal (BMJ) study published on 5 August 2005.

  • UK: NHS studies RFID operation

    Trust to use electronic tagging system to keep track of equipment

    A London NHS trust is planning to use radio frequency identification (RFID) to track surgical instruments through the decontamination process and improve patient safety.

    Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has begun procurement of a new system that tells staff if surgical equipment has been adequately sterilised.

  • UK: NHS Trust uses new system to improve quality of patient identification data

    Pontypridd & Rhondda NHS Trust is using a new IT system to improve the quality of patient identification details held on the Trust’s clinical information systems and provide a synchronisation framework to maintain the improved level of data quality.

    VisionWare is implementing MultiVue Identification Server, its data integration platform, to do the job.

  • UK: NHS uses marketing campaign to drive uptake of web recruitment services

    The new national advertising campaign for the NHS, launched in March by Department of Health Health Secretary John Reid, has been the most successful to date.

    It’s a good example of active promotion for a government service which has had tangible results. With forthcoming Implementing Electronic Government 4 (IEG4) local e-Government submissions identifying online recruitment as a new requirement for Councils to adopt, local authorities can learn from the NHS case study.

  • UK: NHS website - an increasingly popular choice for health advice that saves millions of pounds

    The 2010 NHS Choices annual report, published on 9 November 2010, shows that more patients than ever before are using the NHS website to find health information and self-diagnose, saving the NHS millions of pounds a year.

    The report shows that the NHS Choices website received over a 100 million visits in the previous year, 10 % more than in 2009.

    A separate study performed by Imperial College London found that 70 % of patients use the Internet to search for health information, with a third of those logging on to NHS Choices deciding not to visit their GP afterwards, potentially saving the NHS £44 million (approx. €52 million) a year.

  • UK: NHS Wiltshire Launches Next-Generation Telehealth for COPD to Help Cut Hospital Admissions

    Advanced telehealth service using next-generation solutions from Tunstall will support the improvement of patient health, manage long-term conditions at home and reduce hospital admissions.

    NHS Wiltshire has launched a telehealth initiative using next-generation telehealth solutions from Tunstall Healthcare to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and enable people to better manage long-term conditions such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) at home.

  • UK: NLGN says new Department for Communities & Local Government can devolve power

    The New Local Government Network has welcomed the appointment of Ruth Kelly as the first Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities. Reacting to the move, the think tank said that Kelly’s new Department for Communities and Local Government has the opportunity to put decentralisation high on the political agenda and create a new contract with citizens for devolving power from Whitehall.

  • UK: NLIS makes it a million

    The system for online property searches has passed a milestone

    Over a million land and property searches have now been run on the National Land Information System (NLIS), it was announced on 26 September 2003.

  • UK: NLPG address database proves essential for waste management in South Somerset

    South Somerset District Council is pioneering the use of a centralised address database to improve the provision of waste collection services.

    Based on the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), the Council’s database contains a unique reference number for every single property, making it much more complete, accurate and up-to-date than current postal addresses. This has proved an essential component of a project to roll out wheelie bins to 70,000 domestic properties and assists with the day-to-day management of waste collections. An additional bonus has been improved customer care through the integration of waste collection details within the Council’s Customer First call centre and on the Council’s website.

  • UK: NLPG underpins award winning Warwickshire Direct service delivery project

    The UK's Warwickshire Direct Partnership (WDP) which uses the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) to underpin its innovative Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, recently won a ‘Shared Services’ Award for e-Government excellence. The CRM will migrate nearly 100 different borough and district services across Warwickshire to a central system by the end of 2007. Early results showed that 94% of enquiries being resolved at the first point of contact and 100% of customers declaring they were satisfied with the responses they received. The introduction of the CRM has also meant substantial cost savings through joint procurement.

  • UK: NLPG Underpins Award Winning West Sussex Accessible Services Partnership

    The UK’s West Sussex Accessible Services Partnership (WSASP), which uses the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) to underpin its innovative Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, recently won the 2006 Team Award for e-Government excellence. The CRM system enables service access across West Sussex regardless of the caller’s location with 95% of enquiries addressed at the first point of contact.

    The West Sussex Accessible Services Partnership, a unique combination of seven boroughs and district councils, the county council, Sussex Police and the NHS, has worked collectively to overcome political, cultural and technical challenges to deliver a seamless customer information system to the 750,000 citizens of West Sussex. The CRM system links a single telephone call centre and 19 regional ‘Help Points’ which deal with daily queries from the public; anything from a bin not being collected, to a broken street light or an abandoned car.

  • UK: No easy answer to problem of digital exclusion, warn experts

    Widening digital divide causing concern across the political and business spectrum

    The growing digital divide in the UK should be addressed through a mix of better communications infrastructure, IT education courses, employer initiatives and improved government web sites, delegates at an IT skills event yesterday were told.

    The event was held at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills to mark the beginning of e-Skills week.

  • UK: Noble intentions, but can government IT strategy deliver its shared services vision?

    In the Cabinet Office at Admiralty Arch in London, on 2 November, John Hutton, then a Cabinet Office minister, parried questions from journalists about the publication of the government's new IT strategy.

    One question was whether there would be improved oversight by parliament of any high-risk IT projects that arise from implementation of the strategy. The questioner pointed out to Hutton and his colleague e-government minister Jim Murphy that public spending watchdog the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee investigate fewer than 1% of high- and medium-risk IT-related programmes in the public sector.

  • UK: Nomad to make complaining easier

    The citizens of Nottingham have now got an e-mapping service that the council hopes will improve its services and make reporting problems easier

    People living in Nottingham will be able to report faulty street lighting through an online mapping service.

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