A network of eight GP surgeries in Southampton has improved communication with its its 5,850 non-English-speaking patients through a handheld translation device.
In a real-world validation study between April 2024 and August 2024, in partnership…
Laboratory staff working for the NHS pathology supplier hit by a cyber attack which disrupted services across south east London, have announced plans to strike for five days.
Trade union Unite said in a press…
More than 9,000 automatic letters from hospitals to GPs in Kent were delayed by three weeks due to an error which occurred during an IT upgrade at Kent Community Health Foundation Trust.
The delayed letters,…
An outage to the EMIS IT system caused “chaos” for GPs in England when access was cut off to appointment booking systems and patient records at the busiest time of the week.
EMIS is the…
The electronic prescription service (EPS) is now available at some GP practices and community pharmacies in every health board in Wales following go lives in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University…
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A third of GPs (30%) report that their work PC or laptop software is not fit for purpose, according to results of a Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) poll.
The survey, which was responded…
A new nationwide survey report has highlighted a significant number of general practitioners in Australia rarely or not using the national digital health record system.31% out of 3,000 polled in the Royal Australian College…
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Whittington Health NHS Trust has deployed an electronic prescription solution (EPS) from CLEO Systems in its community heart failure team to replace paper prescriptions.
The EPS, which began being rolled out in August 2024, is…
New patient safety guidance from NHS England says that primary care’s IT systems should include clinical decision making support and automatically flag patient safety issues.
The ‘Primary care patient safety strategy’, published by NHSE on…
Australian gov’t urged to raise My Health Record fundingAn organisation of general practitioners in Australia has called on the federal government to upgrade the country’s digital health record system.
“We’re calling for the federal government to…
