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Poor medicines
management will seriously damage your communities' health!
18 March 2002. Wirral Hospital NHS
Trust wins Best use of IT in the Health Service award for its
introduction of an automated dispensing machine that saves staff
time and reduces drug-dispensing errors.
Today, a team of five,
which included Frank Burns CBE, the brains behind the Information
for Health strategy, won the top prize in this year's
Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards. The Wirral Hospital team have
developed new ways of working to enable scarce staff time to be
used more efficiently; improved the turnaround of prescriptions;
and most importantly reduced the dispensing errors from 15.7 per
100 000 to 7.7 per 100 000 items dispensed.
The judges of this
award scheme look for systems or processes that above everything
else help everyone to do their jobs better, in turn improving
patient care, and are particularly interested in receiving entries
that show measurable and clear outcomes.
Charles Ward, Chairman
of the Awarding Consortium's Judging Panel and CSSA's Marketing
Director said: "Due to the quantitative figures demonstrated
in their project and the documented and clear benefit to patients,
Wirral Hospital NHS Trust were unanimously voted as this year's
winner of the Best use of IT in the Health Service award."
Fifty-five individuals working in
hospitals; health authorities; general practices; pharmacies;
services; and IT organisations supplying the NHS were recognised
for their groundbreaking work. The awards were presented by
Dr Richard Gibbs, Chairman of the NHS Chief Executives'
Information Forum at HC2002 on Monday 18 March 2002.
The Healthcare IT Effectiveness
Awards recognise and reward the teams rising to the challenge of
harnessing the information and communication revolution to improve
the delivery of patient care.
Notes for editors
1. About the awards
The Healthcare IT Effectiveness
Awards result from a collaboration between some of the most
prominent organisations in UK healthcare information management:
The British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information
Management; the Computing Services and Software Association; the
Department of Health; the Health Informatics Committee of the
British Computer Society; and the NHS Information Authority.
Members of the Awarding Consortium,
together with invited suppliers of the ICT industry, sponsor and
contribute their time and resources to the co-ordination and
organisation of this worthwhile event. During the last seven years
more than 350 individuals from organisations in healthcare have
been recipients of team awards.
2. Comments from the sponsors
BT Health
"The vision of an electronic
NHS is critically dependent on high-quality infrastructure,
delivering end-to-end performance, from executive desktop to nurse
palmtop. Delivery and management of this infrastructure will be
BT's key role over the next decade as the NHS embraces a new way
of working. But however good our infrastructure, the benefits it
can bring will not be realised unless all in the NHS become truly
excellent at using IT. BT is committed to helping the NHS succeed
in this respect. We are therefore delighted to be associated, for
our third year, with the Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards.
It's what you do with IT that counts”, said Peter Dyke,
Head of Market Development, BT Health
Torex Health
"Torex Health is delighted to
be supporting the 2002 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards. The
innovation of enthusiastic and talented people in the NHS is a
vital factor in driving the IT agenda, one that Torex has
deliberately set out to encourage and support", says Denis
Shaughnessy, Sales and Marketing Director. "In primary care,
for example, the development of Torex Premiere Synergy is driven
by a set of talented and innovative clinicians, and as a result
provides
unparalleled facilities for
addressing local clinical priorities, far beyond the RFA standard.
In secondary care, our proven implementation services and
ultra-reliable platforms allow trusts to focus on change and
delivery of care, while providing the best platform for developing
higher levels of EPR (Electronic Patient Records). The exciting
opportunity for us and the NHS now is the real possibility of
bringing both these worlds together in the interest of genuinely
patient-centric care."
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