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Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Drives Efficiencies Through Innovative Technology
White Papers One of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in England, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides general and emergency services to Hackney and the City of London as well as specialist care in key disciplines.
[May 30, 2007, 1:00]
NHS trust loses 18,000 staff details
News A London NHS hospital trust has admitted to losing almost 18,000 staff details on four CDs. The payroll details were lost on 22 July while in transit between the salaries and wages department of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and payroll company...
[September 17, 2008, 12:41]
North Bristol NHS Trust Fulfils Vision for a Truly Digital Hospital With the Support of HP ProCurve Networking
White Papers North Bristol NHS Trust needed to implement a reliable, high-performance and scalable networking infrastructure to support its ambitious vision of a digital 'Super hospital'. North Bristol NHS Trust implemented an HP ProCurve Adaptive Network...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
NHS trust loses 21,000 patient details on laptop
News A hospital trust has lost an unencrypted laptop containing details of thousands of patients. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will investigate whether Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act...
[July 1, 2008, 8:42]
NHS trust finds lost CDs holding 18,000 staff details
News A London NHS hospital trust has found four discs, containing 18,000 staff details, that had been thought lost. The discs were handed into the finance department of the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust last Friday after a letter was sent out to staff...
[September 26, 2008, 15:13]
NHS denies privacy risk over smartcard sharing
News On Thursday, Connecting for Health (CfH) — the NHS department administering the IT overhaul (the National Programme for IT, or NPfIT) — issued a statement claiming that there was "no question of the confidentiality of patient data having been...
[February 2, 2007, 10:40]
Downadup virus hits PCs at five Sheffield hospitals
News The incident echoes an earlier infection at the Barts and The London NHS Trust, where hospital PCs were struck down by the Mytob worm. Troubleshooters are still trying to flush a virus out of hundreds of hospital computers more than three weeks...
[January 22, 2009, 7:50]
Mobile .Net application could save NHS millions
News Staff at the Bradford Hospitals NHS trust are to start using Pocket PCs to order supplies online wherever they are in the hospital. The Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust manages Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital, providing healthcare for...
[July 30, 2002, 9:09]
NHS designs bug-fighting keyboard
News University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust is ready to begin installing the new keyboard on hospital wards. Researchers at a London teaching hospital have come up with a "clean" keyboard that could help in the fight against...
[November 2, 2006, 13:43]
Hospital loses information on child patients
News Wendy Saviour, the chief executive of Nottinghamshire Primary Care Trust, said on Monday that three laptops had been stolen from offices at the Kings Mill Hospital near Mansfield last Wednesday. A laptop containing the personal details of thousands...
[March 27, 2007, 16:26]
Hospital mobile revolution starts with supply chain
News Two departments in Bradford Hospital Trust which have particularly high levels of stock ordering -- the Ear Nose and Throat theatres and the Paediatrics Outreach service -- tested Wander, and it has now been rolled out to most other departments.
[July 30, 2002, 9:09]
Data protection breached by five NHS trusts
News Similarly, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust reported the loss of an unencrypted memory stick that was not password protected, probably stolen from an unlocked office. Meanwhile, Epsom and St Helier University Hospital NHS...
[July 16, 2009, 9:40]
BT wins Recycler Of The Year award
Blog These badges have already been deployed in libraries in Minneapolis (July 2006), hotels in Austin, Texas (June 2006).oh dear, it gets worse.back to the UK now, and back to the NHS: Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (June...
[February 22, 2007, 14:55]
Virus downs systems at three London hospitals
News St Bartholomew's (Barts) in the City of London, the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green are all part of the same NHS trust — Barts and The London — and have all been affected.
[November 18, 2008, 16:07]
E-prescription boost for 1,800 hospital beds
News The UK's largest rollout of a hospital electronic-prescription system is nearing completion in Birmingham. The ePrescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system will manage medicines for the more than 1,800 hospital beds at Heartlands...
[January 20, 2009, 7:20]
Sophos Case Study: St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals Trust
White Papers The hospital trust that covers the St Helens and Knowsley area of Merseyside found that its existing anti-virus solution could not cope, and that spam attacks were impacting its 7000 email users. The trust chose Sophos solutions at the gateway and...
[December 8, 2008, 23:00]
Sophos Case Study: Milton Keynes General NHS Trust
White Papers The hospital trust that provides acute and primary care in Milton Keynes is a long-term Sophos user, and takes pride in ensuring its computers are protected from all forms of malware and unwanted applications.
[December 8, 2008, 23:00]
Eye Hospital Reduces Energy Costs by £10,000 a Year With Virtualised Servers
White Papers The IT department at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for deploying and hosting medical and business software for the whole of the organisation. With only five people on the team, it is often under pressure to get...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Health trust ditches NHS e-record scheme
News The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust (RUH) has stopped the deployment of the Cerner Millennium electronic care-records system, part of the £12.7bn national NHS IT modernisation programme. A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it...
[July 23, 2008, 9:09]
UK Hospital Reduces Server Management and Power Consumption by 70 Per Cent and Delivers New Services Faster With Award-Winning Virtual Infrastructure
White Papers Rapid server infrastructure expansion meant that Liverpool Women's Hospital - part of Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust needed a consolidated infrastructure that would guarantee information availability and speed up the delivery of new services.
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
