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Better information for health, where and when it's needed
NHS Connecting for Health is delivering the National Programme for IT to bring modern computer systems into the NHS which will improve patient care and services. Over the next ten years, the National Programme for IT will connect over 30,000 GPs in England to almost 300 hospitals and give patients access to their personal health and care information, transforming the way the NHS works.
What's new?
- Quality data: quality care Places are available for a conference NHS Connecting for Health is hosting to look at the importance to patient care of SNOMED CT.
- NHSmail case study: Dr John Anderson, a consultant physician, specialising in endocrinology and diabetes, gives his account of how NHSmail has changed his experience of receiving and sending important information.
- Local Service Provider deployments: LSPs have provided details of their deployments achieved from 23 June 2006 to date and a forecast for the next six months.
- Ensuring long-term success in ETD: Dr Phil Candy, national director of Education, Training and Development (ETD), outlines how ETD aims to achieve its goals.
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) case study: Corrine Gower, of the PALS team at the Weston General Hospital in Weston-super-Mare, discusses how new electronic patient records can be a driving force for better and safer patient care.
