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Hertfordshire police has defended its plans to circle a town in the county with automatic numberplate recognition cameras
More on policing here. Continue reading “Privacy groups take Royston’s ANPR plans to ICO”
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”
Police are reluctant to reveal locations of automatic numberplate recognition cameras, but their secretive approach is not working
This decision was reversed by a later tribunal in 2012, but the evidence shed new light on police ANPR systems, covered in this Guardian article. Continue reading “Open up the numberplate recognition camera system”
The government will replace NHS Direct’s national 0845 service with locally commissioned 111 services in two years’ time. How does the organisation plan to evolve?
Update: NHS Direct won 111 contracts covering 32% of England, but eventually decided they were uneconomical. It closed in 2014.
Continue reading “Final call for NHS Direct’s national service”
Allowing consultants to order drugs remotely is saving lives and money, according the medical lead of the NHS Stroke Improvement Programme
This is a use of fairly straightforward IT, teleconferencing, that saves lives and money through making it much easier for consultants to decide which drug to prescribe victims in the three hours after a stroke takes place. Continue reading “Videoconference consultants boost emergency stroke care”