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In October 2019 a group of experts reported to health leaders that, due to dilapidated buildings, obsolete equipment and a lack of staff, at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre patients were unsafe and the quality of care was uncertain. [8] It is planned to be taken over by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in April 2021. [9]
The origins of the hospital lie in the General Dispensary which was established in one room of Hertford Castle 'for the relief of the sick poor by affording them gratuitous advice and medicine' with permission from the Marquess of Salisbury, Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, in 1822.
Prior to 1972 there was a Lister Hospital in Hitchin. [1] Like the present hospital, it was named in honour of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, a British surgeon known as the pioneer of aseptic surgery, [2] The new hospital was opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1972. [3]
In 2019 only 10% of NHS trusts claimed to be fully digitised. The NHS Long Term Plan requires all hospitals to move to digital records by 2023, so clinicians can access and interact with patient records and care plans wherever they are. As of 2019, 62% of trusts have plans to digitise all their patient records. [11]
A system developed for renal patients, Renal patient view, provides online information for kidney patients’ including diagnoses, treatment and latest test results. [18] Almost all renal units in the UK can use this system, and it has been extended to patients with inflammatory bowel disease and diabetes in Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.
Because it failed to meet the NHS targets for elective treatment - 92 patients had waited more than a year in October 1918 - the Herts Valley Clinical Commissioning Group decided to fine the trust £500,000 a month until its performance reaches the national target of 92%. The money will be spent on private and specialist providers.
On 31 March 2013, NHS Connecting for Health ceased to exist, [citation needed] and some projects and responsibilities were taken over by Health and Social Care Information Centre. [citation needed] In August 2018, NHS launched a healthcare finance innovation initiative to identify solutions which could streamline financial operations. [12]
Patients Know Best is a British social enterprise, [1] with an aim of putting patients in control of their own medical records. [2] In the UK, Patients Know Best integrates into the NHS app [3] and in the Netherlands, it integrates with the government's personal health records infrastructure persoonlijke gezondheidsomgeving (PGO).