Downloads for NPfIT, NHS and Healthcare IT

NPfIT, health care and public sector IT case studies, technical overviews and advice sheets.

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Tip sheets

• To download "Five Ways to Get the Best from RFID" please click here: PDF(180K).

Kinetic insight and experience

• Article presented at the European Healthcare Innovation Congress Healthcare Must Ride the Wave.
• Kinetic Consulting interviewed by the Financial Times about EPR and wireless LANs in a London NHS foundation trust.
• Could healthcare robots be used to help the elderly and chronically ill? Learn about remote presence and bipedal robots in health care. Click to read or download our article “Carebots in the Community”: PDF(350K).
• A health care IT project ahead of its time including benefits realisation, beneficial changes to operations and integrated information systems of value to managers and users alike: all still valid in today’s NPfIT implementation. Download an article on the implementation of a major health care IT system: PDF (403K).
• Read a published article on the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)in health care. Click to download a published article on RFID in healthcare: PDF (530K).
• Doctors' engagement in Connecting for Health's National Programme for IT. NPfIT will give the NHS in England access to the largest network of patient-based information in the world—but many doctors seem unimpressed. Why? Download our article “Switch on to IT Benefits” about doctors' engagement in NPfIT: PDF (1Mb).
• Healthcare transformation with Connecting for Health's NPfIT. Click here to read “Making the NP Fit” on the e-Health Insider Website.

NPfIT, health care and public sector

• An electronic patient record implementation in a Norwegian hospital that eliminated its paper-based medical records entirely by scanning. The study concludes that this benefited medical secretaries the most and to a lesser extent clinicians. The study measures user perception with a questionnaire. It would have been interesting to compare the findings with a benefits study carried out before and after electronic patient record implementation using a more objective method. Might this study indicate user perceptions post-NPfIT? Download a study of an electronic patient record implementation: PDF (481K).
• With the implementation of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) primary care nurses will have to work with computers. Information about patients will be almost exclusively held in electronic patient records; and much of the information about best practice is most readily accessible via computer terminals. Nurses in Sussex Primary Care Trust were surveyed using a questionnaire to examine the influence of age and nursing profession on the level of computer use. The study concludes that using computers in the surgery has become the norm for primary care nurses. However, community nurses over 50 lack the confidence and skill of their younger, practice-based colleagues. Download a study of computer skills in a PCT: PDF (265K).