October 2009 Archives

October 1, 2009

• National Patient Safety Agency issues guidelines on hospital oxygen equipment safety

October 3, 2009

• Integration of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) into NHS 24

October 5, 2009

• NHS 24 teams up with Scottish Centre for Telehealth to give patients web access to consultants

October 7, 2009

• Irish Clinic digitises and archives paper records
• Tackling health fraudsters

October 12, 2009

• Sandpiper Trust in rural areas of Scotland

October 14, 2009

• Hammersmith and Fulham PCT use SMS to help smokers quit

October 15, 2009

• Inverness based air ambulance co-ordination service to be centralised in Glasgow.
• 'Spider pill' used for scans

October 17, 2009

• German researchers study the placebo effect

October 19, 2009

• Royal College of Nursing survey finds nurses struggling to cope with workload
• Scottish Ambulance Service reviews the air ambulance service
• Public Health Minister Shona Robison outlines new care for elderly strategy
• Scottish company's arthritis testing kit approved for sale in the USA
• Productive Community Services programme (England)

October 20, 2009

• Joseph Rowntree Foundation study emerging technologies to provide elderly at-home care.
• Leeds University research into longer lasting body replacement parts
• Industry leaders debate mobile health at TechnologyWorld09

October 21, 2009

• Migraine Monitor site wins award

October 22, 2009

• Follow Connected Health Symposium Boston on twitter use #cch09

October 25, 2009

• NHS told to improve oxygen care

October 26, 2009

• Mobile and Fixed Computer Use by Doctors and Nurses on Hospital Wards

October 27, 2009

• Service designed from the patient's point of view.

October 28, 2009

• Dedicated stroke unit to be built at Perth Royal Infirmary
• Connected Health Symposium 2009 Wrap-up