Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The NHS Electronic Prescription Service is part of the NHS National Programme for IT of the National Health Service in England. It enables the electronic transfer of medical prescriptions from doctors (or other prescribers) to pharmacies and other dispensers and electronic notification to the reimbursement agency, NHS Prescription Services. [1]
An early warning system (EWS), sometimes called a between-the-flags or track-and-trigger chart, is a clinical tool used in healthcare to anticipate patient deterioration by measuring the cumulative variation in observations, most often being patient vital signs and level of consciousness. [1]
NHS Digital ran the Spine service for the NHS, which is a central, secure system for patient data in England. [3] This enables a number of services for patients, including: the Electronic Prescription Service, which sends prescriptions digitally from GP surgeries and other NHS providers to pharmacies, without needing a printed prescription.
The programme was established in October 2002 following several Department of Health reports on IT Strategies for the NHS, and on 1 April 2005 a new agency called NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) was formed to deliver the programme. [13] CfH absorbed both staff and workstreams from the abolished NHS Information Authority, the organisation it ...
Lumbar spinal stenosis is very prevalent with 9.3% of the general population producing symptoms and the number is continuing to rise in patients older than 60. [16] It's generally an indication for spinal surgery in patients older than 65 years of age. [ 17 ]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
NHS Digital have also contracted with BT for the provision of transition network arrangements for the two to three years from April 2017. [18] In November 2020 NHS Digital announced the completion of the HSCN migration and legacy network termination, with liabilities for the legacy N3 network terminated at the end of October 2020.
Access to data is available to NHS personnel anywhere in England, but only if they have had the correct access rights on their smartcard approved by senior management [citation needed]. Pharmacists in five regions were given read-only access in an NHS England pilot in October 2014 so they could verify and compare a patient's medicines during ...