The UK Council for Health Informatics Professions, (UKCHIP), BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and the Institute of Health Records and Information Management (IHRIM),

Patients will be taught how to code and make apps as part of a patient empowerment programme being run by the NHS Commissioning Board.
National director of patients and information Tim Kelsey has previously called on clinicians to learn how to program.

In an NHS Institute webinar, he said that involving patients was key to the health care revolution.

IHRIM was involved in the production of the BCS Health/NHS Guide to Safe Online Record Keeping, which was recognised at the BMA’s Patient Information Awards.

The report was highly commended and it was the runner-up in the ‘Information that aids decision making’ category. 

A press release can be found below and further information is available at...

 http://bma.org.uk/about-the-bma/bma-library/patient-information-awards

The Department of Health website will move to the new single website for government in March 2013.

GOV.UK is the new single website for UK Government. In October 2012 it brought together government information and guidance from Directgov and Business Link into one place.

Formally launched today, the latest version of healthcare record standards will inform the development of electronic health records by both clinicians and industry. This guidance can help to meet the Secretary of State for health’s challenge to the NHS to ‘go paperless’ by 2018.

By following these standards for the structure and content of patients’ healthcare records, the NHS can improve patient care and the quality of data available for measurement of whole system performance, and stop reinventing the wheel.