Implementation Consultants
(North West/Salary: £35,000 - £45,000)
Development Manager
(Northern Ireland/£30000 - £40000 per annum + bonus)
Support Consultant
(Scotland/£30000 per annum)
Senior Developer
(North West/£30000 - £40000 per annum + bonus)
Communications Consultant
(South East/Competitive)
The Care Quality Commission has launched a public consultation on proposals to change its inspection regime and introduce ‘Ofsted-style’ ratings for trusts and hospitals.
17 June 2013
Central Eastern Commissioning Support Unit is using a Harris portal to allow GPs to see information about children deemed ‘at risk’ by community colleagues.
North Bristol NHS Trust’s big, new hospital needs a sophisticated, modern IT system to help run it. EHI reporter Rebecca Todd donned a hard hat to learn more about its paper-lite ambitions.
13 June 2013
Our GP columnist held a BBQ while the sun was out, but his guests took a gloomy view of GP IT.
11 June 2013
A National Audit Office report reveals that 98% of NPfIT benefits are yet to be realised and a new comparison website is launched setting out the impact of deprivation on early mortality in England.
The £260m fund initially billed as a boost for e-prescribing will be linked to NHS England's guidance on electronic patient records to "catalyse" the adoption of IT in the NHS, EHI's Big EPR Debate round table was told.
19 June 2013
More than 100 GP practices are using an app to detect the early signs of dementia in older patients. 
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust went live with its Allscripts electronic patient record last weekend, three months ahead of schedule.
The Health Informatics Service has announced the development of a fibre-optic network from Virgin Media Business. The network will provide GPs and clinicians treating patients in the West Yorkshire region with faster access to information at their surgeries and health clinics. The service will be available to around 33,000 NHS staff and will ease the transfer of data between various health organisations.
10 July 2012
Patients Know Best has secured £50,000 of funding from UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, to match the £50,000 of investment from Silicon Valley investors. Patients Know Best was one of just eight social enterprises to be awarded the match funding, as part of UnLtd's Big Venture Challenge Award scheme. The patient-controlled medical records provider has also announced a number of new customers, including Evelina Children's Hospital in London, and said that it is operating in the USA, Nigera and South Africa.
25 June 2012
