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Opinion Article: Clinical Skills - Why Educators Need a Sea Change in their Approach

By Val Dimmock, simulation and clinical skills facilitator at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The key to delivering safe, high quality care is a knowledgeable, competent and confident workforce, yet the Francis Report shows that the NHS is struggling to ensure that staff develop and maintain the necessary skills. Val Dimmock, simulation and clinical skills facilitator at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, says clinical skills leads must adopt a new approach to training, supported by innovative online learning tools.

(Opinion Article) Pathway to Privacy: Time to Take Ownership of Re-building Trust with Patients

By Tim Dunn, General Manager, FairWarning.
The government has finally published its long-awaited response to the Caldicott2 review of information sharing in the NHS - and, as many of us had hoped, has accepted all of its recommendations. It's a landmark moment that could see the NHS turn an important corner and stride progressively towards building transformational models of care.

Opinion Article: A Paperless NHS - Why We cannot Stop at Electronic Record

By Tim Hawkins, Managing Director of Clinical Solutions at Elsevier.
The call to create a "paperless NHS" by 2018 aims to deliver improvements in patient safety, experiences of patients and health care professionals, as well as delivering high quality care and increase efficiency. The focus so far has, largely, been on digitising patient records, especially with the launch of the £260 million "Safer Wards, Safer Hospitals" Technology Fund, which will provide match funding for NHS providers in England to support the move away from paper-based systems.

Opinion Article: Embracing the Digital Library

By Wayne Sime, Director of Library Services at the Royal Society of Medicine.
When I joined the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in 2006, a year before the Kindle was invented and four years before the iPad dominated the tablet market, the RSM's library was a very different place.

Opinion Article: Are SME Tech Companies Revolutionising the Care Industry?

By Devin Chawda, Co-founder and CEO of Y-cam Solutions Ltd.
Home carers and independent care homes are often criticised for providing inadequate standards of care to the elderly and vulnerable. This is a clear cause of concern for those who are planning to use care services for a relative or friend.

Opinion Article: Being Open to Open Source

By Wayne Parslow, VP Harris Healthcare EMEA.
A new and frenzied debate has opened up in the world of healthcare technology- should NHS technology be open source? A move to open source would potentially mean vast reductions in licence fees for the NHS, the ability for the NHS to develop systems to their bespoke needs, no more supplier lock-in - which results in NHS organisations struggling to get the IT products they use to work with another supplier's - and of course, no need for "one size fits" all contracts such as we saw with the National Programme for IT.

(Opinion Article) Paperless NHS: Not without Caldicott2

By Tim Dunn, General Manager, FairWarning.
A few weeks after the publication of the Caldicott2 recommendations and having had time to review them in detail, I can only applaud the outcome of the huge task undertaken by Dame Fiona and her team. Not only does the report mark a decisive step forward for patient privacy, it lays the foundation for building a secure and trusted digital healthcare system and the achievement of a paperless NHS by 2018.

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Opinion Article: Clinical Skills - Why Educators Need a Sea Change in their Approach

(Opinion Article) Pathway to Privacy: Time to Take Ownership of Re-building Trust with Patients

Opinion Article: A Paperless NHS - Why We cannot Stop at Electronic Record

Opinion Article: Embracing the Digital Library

Opinion Article: Are SME Tech Companies Revolutionising the Care Industry?

Opinion Article: Being Open to Open Source

(Opinion Article) Paperless NHS: Not without Caldicott2

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