SCCT 2007 Conference & AGM
Jury’s Inn Southampton

Was a Great Success!

Photos Here....
 

FHCS Newsletter

Can be found here

The Federation of Healthcare Science
Website and free newsletter subscription

National Programme for IT
(NPfIT) in the NHS

The National Programme for IT, which is being delivered by the new Department of Health agency NHS Connecting for Health, is bringing modern computer systems into the NHS to improve patient care and services.

Over the next ten years, the National Programme for IT will connect over 30,000 GPs in England to almost 300 hospitals and give patients access to their personal health and care information, transforming the way the NHS works.
Read more here

Whats in the programme?

Care Records, National Data Spine, Choose & Book
Electronic Transmission of Presciptions,
Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS)
For X-Rays etc., National Library for Health (NLH)
and Resources for the Secondary Users - all here!

Care Record Guarantee published

 Health Minister Lord Warner has announced tough new rules to ensure patients keep control over access to their health records. Read more here

Technology News Section
Click to visit

The SCCT Constitution

can be downloaded here

The National Profiles for
Healthcare Science

Have been published (finally) by the NHS Agenda for Change body
Read them here

Note: These will be the official criteria for role matching!
(In Adobe Acrobat format)

The Technologist - Resources

As publicised in The Technologist, the SCCT journal,
here are the links to MS Word templates for your CPD
work recording:

Continuing Education.dot

Goal and Action.dot

Professional Employment Record.dot

Reflective Practice Diary pages.dot

These templates will allow users to create more than one
copy without ever overwriting the original.

How to find your template directory?
In Word, use TOOLS, OPTIONS and FILE LOCATIONS

Merck Medical

A library of searchable ailments

an excellent resource, here

The House of Commons

has produced a paper on
Allergy conditions
Will Allergy Specialists be the new Consultants
promised by the Government?