The UK had its largest presence ever at Arab Health this year. The exhibition, held in Dubai is the leading event for healthcare professionals in the Middle East and was host to over 55,000 visitors from over 145 countries. The UK had its largest presence at the show this year and with continued support from [...]

The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to meet the requirement to generate and print standardised patient wristbands. The NPSA made a set of statistics available recently to E-Health Insider showing that only 70% of NHS trusts that were required to [...]

The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that do not comply by July 2011 to be penalised. An advanced notification of a new information standard has been sent out by the ISB that would define the procedures necessary to add barcodes to [...]