New advice has been issued to local councils grappling with major constitutional change as a result of the Local Government Act.The act aims to make councils more efficient and accountable by getting rid of endless committee and sub-committee meetings taking a long time to make decisions.
Seven companies have been selected from the seventy who expressed interest, to take part in the trial of electronic prescriptions due to be launched in March 2001. The electronic transfer of prescriptions will allow GPs to e-mail prescriptions directly to the pharmacist and to the Prescription Pricing Authority.The aim is to introduce full-scale electronic prescriptions by 2004 and bring benefits for patients including fewer trips to the GP surgery to collect repeat prescriptions, and an end to illegible and incomplete prescriptions.
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Wainwright D, Waring TThe International Journal of Public Sector Management, (UK), 2000 Vol 13 No 3. Start page: 241. No of pages: 19
Assesses the progress of information management and technology strategy in the UK National Health Service (NHS) over a period of 10 years. Outlines a brief history of the application of maturity models to information systems and information technology in organizations, following this with a review of progress in information management and technology strategy in the NHS between 1992 and 1998. Next, examines the current focus, which is the data administration and maturity phases of the maturity model and which is based on the assumption that technical and organizational integration have been achieved. Considers, however, that the NHS has not reached a sufficient level of maturity in information systems, management and technology to move into the data administration and maturity phases and that integration must take place first. Also recommends that the NHS allows time for consolidation of this integration within the user community.
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