NPfIT – bless! A personal view by a GP

NpfIT is travelling in the right direction-it just needs to go about it a different way, says Dr Brian Fisher

NHS Connecting for Health tries, it really does. And in many ways it is succeeding. We need to applaud those. But in other ways, well…

A call to action

National Health Executive talks toPeter Suter of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust about how communications technology is enabling the NHS to save lives

When one considers the task facing ambulance services in Britain, it is hard to comprehend how they manage to do such a good job. Serving millions of people, each service has to locate and retrieve the sick and injured as quickly as possible from a specific location...

Five minute interview

What do you hope to achieve in your new role as chair of BCS Health ?

I see BCS as having two priorities. The first is to help the government and the NHS make better policy decisions around information...

Getting to grips with ePrescribing

With patient safety a top priority, the NHS is constantly exploring ways to eradicate mistakes from patient care. One of the most important areas to eliminate mistakes from is the provision of medication, reports Richard Mackillican

The last decade has seen the NHS focus on delivering both a wider variety of services for patients and better quality care. As the range of services has increased, so has demand, meaning that staff...

Getting IT right for the NHS

There is growing pressure on NHS bodies to find ways to utilise their IT systems effectively. National Health Executive spoke toBrian Derryto find out more

One of the key issues in healthcare at the moment is efficiency and how to achieve it without compromising on the quality of services provided to patients...

IM&T – with challenge comes opportunity

The UK economy may have technically come out of recession in the fourth quarter of 2009, albeit with just 0.1% growth, but the health sector can expect at least three years of recession ahead. Information Management and Technology (IM&T) is too often seen as an administrative overhead and in these straitened times is unlikely to be considered a priority, says Melissa Frewin...