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East Midlands trust advertises 15 year informatics deal which may involve other NHS organisations
University Hospitals of Leicester plans for a single partner for IT work. Continue reading “University Hospitals of Leicester seeks £600m partner for IT transformation”
The government’s apparent ending of the NHS IT programme leaves NHS CfH and its BT and CSC contracts unaffected
I wrote about the end of the NHS’s National Programme for IT on many occasions. In each case, the changes represented a scaling-down, not a cancellation. On health records, while England planned something big then reduced it, Scotland planned something reasonable and did it.
Continue reading “Scrapping the National Programme for IT: a journey not a destination”
A hospital trust that became notorious for poor care is using its employees’ ideas to turn itself around
Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust has become notorious for failing to take care of its patients. This piece looks at some of the ways it has started to make improvements, although it has a long way to go.
Continue reading “How staff helped Mid Staffordshire make a clean start”
Councils in north west England are drafting a bylaw for minimum drink prices, but Scotland may get there first
Scotland is increasingly developing distinctive policies on health, such as minimum unit pricing for alcohol, to deal with its particular health problems. You can read other posts and articles by me on Scotland here.
Continue reading “Scotland set to lead on minimum unit pricing for alcohol”
University Hospitals Birmingham’s chief executive Julie Moore has needed all her operational management skills to transfer patients and staff
The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, which treats soldiers returning from overseas next to NHS patients, is a great example of how well a new hospital can work.
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Continue reading “How Birmingham moved into its new NHS hospital”