Hundreds of vaccine doses wasted after fridge accidentally turned off
Around 450 doses of the Pfizer jab had to be binned
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Hundreds of coronavirus vaccines went to waste after a fridge was accidentally turned off in a vaccination centre, the PA news agency understands.
2021-01-12T07:00:00+00:00
An HSJ roundtable explored how
patient pathways can be improved and silos addressed – and the underpinning role of data in tackling these challenges
As chief information officer of Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust, Simon Marsh is used to serious restrictions in his and his colleagues’ ability to access data.
“When we transport somebody to a hospital we have been responsible for their healthcare from the initial call all the way up to dropping them off at the hospital,” says Mr Marsh.
“But we haven’t got a clue what happens to those individuals once they’ve been through the hospital system. We don’t know if somebody’s in there for an hour, two hours, what the eventual outcome was, because of the data protection and the information governance issues that exist between the various NHS environments.”
2021-01-08T07:00:00+00:00
In a recent
HSJ roundtable the panel explored the advances that have been made in caring for people remotely with the help of technology, whether these changes are embedded and the challenges still remaining
When Rupa Joshi thinks of how technology has been used to support patients during the first wave of the pandemic, she comes up with no shortage of examples. But one feels especially powerful: video consultations and, in particular, virtual group consultations for those living with long-term conditions that place them at high risk from covid.
“Patients were feeling very frightened, upset at home, not feeling they had access to us,” says Dr Joshi, a practising GP and co-clinical director for Wokingham North primary care network.