enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Patient choice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_choice

    In order to enable patients to compare and choose hospitals the national NHS website established a hospital comparison tool. [7] The information that users can access to compare hospital performance can include: The number of procedures carried out; Waiting times; Average time spent in hospital; Patient outcomes (Readmission rates) Rates of ...

  3. The right to choose: NHS patients decide where they are ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/choose-nhs-patients-decide-where...

    When making decisions about healthcare, NHS patients are free to choose where they are treated based on what matters most to them, whether that is how far to travel, how long to wait, or how the ...

  4. Choose and Book - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_and_Book

    All primary care trusts in England were live with Choose and Book (although that might only be one GP within a PCT or practice), while all NHS acute trusts and a large number of independent sector hospitals used Choose and Book. At 28 October 2008, 93% of practices were providing the service, and while some PCTs are only seeing low volumes (30% ...

  5. Patient record access in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_record_access_in...

    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.

  6. NHS Connecting for Health - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health

    It adopted the responsibility of delivering the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), an initiative by the Department of Health to move the National Health Service (NHS) in England towards a single, centrally-mandated electronic care record for patients and to connect 30,000 general practitioners to 300 hospitals, providing secure and audited ...

  7. NHS e-Referral Service - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_e-Referral_Service

    The NHS e-Referral Service (ERS) is an electronic referral system developed for the Health and Social Care Information Centre by IT consultancy BJSS. It is used by NHS England and it replaced the Choose and Book service on 15 June 2015. [ 1 ]

  8. Patients' rights - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patients'_rights

    The Charter of Patients' Rights lists seventeen rights that patients are entitled to: [6] Right to information: Every patient has the right to know what is the illness that they are suffering, its causes, the status of the diagnosis (provisional or confirmed), expected costs of treatment. Furthermore, service providers should communicate this ...

  9. Electronic health records in England - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_records...

    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]