Thursday 15 May 2014, at NHS Southside, London.   Board meeting will start at 10:30am

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The doctor’s digital toolbox (Infographic)  – Integrated Care Today

The annual spend on IT in the United States was predicted to hit $6.8bn by 2014 according to this infogrpahic from SBI – take a look at how technology is becoming as necessary as a doctor’s stethoscope in healthcare.

NHS Trusts get another chance to apply for £500 million of tech fund cash, as phase 2 is launched – NHS England

The second wave of the £500 million ‘Integrated Digital Care Fund’, (formerly the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund’), opened to applications yesterday. NHS Trusts, and now Local Authorities, can apply for part of £240 million of funding to digitise and integrate patient information across the health and care sector, driving improvements in patient care.

Health chiefs flock to Twitter to talk to staff and the public – Health Service Journal 

Trust chiefs have taken to Twitter in significant numbers in a bid to keep in contact with staff, swap ideas and drive good practice, HSJ research has revealed.

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MPs look abroad for records inspiration  – EHI
Patients should be allowed to “own” and interact with their medical records if they are to be fully involved in their own care, a new parliamentary report argues.

BMJ Quality & Safety – June 2014 Volume 23 Issue 6 (Full text available with your NHS OpenAthens account)

• Using balanced metrics and mixed methods to better understand QI interventions
• Early warnings, weak signals and learning from healthcare disasters
• Safely and effectively reducing inpatient length of stay: a controlled study of the General Internal Medicine Care Transformation Initiative
• Using data and quality monitoring to enhance maternity outcomes: a qualitative study of risk managers’ perspectives
• Creating a safe, reliable hospital at night handover: a case study in implementation science
• Governance of quality of care: a qualitative study of health service boards in Victoria, Australia
• Interactive questioning in critical care during handovers: a transcript analysis of communication behaviours by physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners
• Caring for critically ill children in the community: a needs assessment
• Oral antibiotics at discharge for children with acute osteomyelitis: a rapid cycle improvement project
• The experiences of professionals with using information from patient-reported outcome measures to improve the quality of healthcare: a systematic review of qualitative research

NHS Higher Specialist Scientific Training Programme (HSST) recruitment – NHS Employers