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Knowledge, technology and nursing: The case of NHS Direct
Abstract
NHS Direct is a relatively new, nurse-based, 24-hour health advice line run as part of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The service delivers health advice remotely via the telephone. A central aspect of the service is the attempt to provide a standard level of health advice regardless of time, space or the background of the nurse. At the heart of this attempt is an innovative health software called CLINICAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (CAS). Using a number of qualitative methods, this article highlights how the interaction between the nursing staff and this technology is key to the service. The technology is based on management’s attempt to standardize and control the caller–nurse relationship. Thus the software can be seen as part of an abstract rationality, whereas how it is deployed by nurses is based on a practical rationality that places practice and experience ?rst and sees the technology and protocols as tools.
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| Author | Gerard Hanlon, Tim Strangleman, Jackie Goode, Donna Luff, Alicia O’Cathain and David Greatbatch |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | autonomy forms of rationality NHS Direct NHS objectivity nursing |
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Nursing Sustainability and Climate Change Forum
Nursing Sustainability and Climate Change is based in Cornwall, UK but open to all with an interest in the environment and health.
Initially founded as a forum for nurses to engage in these topics, the group has expanded to include other health professionals or those who wish to engage in these topics.
Our interest is to educate, discuss, engage, research and maintain an active presence highlighting the environment as a major determinant of health.
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| Type | Forum |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | NHS Forum UK |
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Nursing Technology Fund
Information about the 'Nursing Technology Fund' on the NHS website.
In October 2012 the Prime Minister announced the establishment of a Nursing Technology Fund to support nurses, midwives and health visitors to make better use of digital technology in all care settings, in order to deliver safer, more effective and more efficient care.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | UK NHS |
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The NHS Plan: Improving health and reducing inequality
No injustice is greater than the inequalities in health which scar our nation. The life expectancy of a boy born into the bottom social class is over nine years less than a boy born into the most affluent social class. The gap between health needs and health services remains stubbornly wide.
The worst health problems in our country will not be tackled without dealing with their fundamental causes. This means tackling disadvantage in all its forms - poverty, lack of educational attainment, unemployment, discrimination and social exclusion. It means recognising the specific health needs of different groups, including people with disabilities and minority ethnic groups. Improving health is now a key priority for all government departments. Action will be taken to step up the cross-governmental focus on health and inequalities.
The NHS too has a stronger role to play in prevention, as well as working in partnership with other agencies to tackle the causes of ill health so as to reduce health inequalities.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | NHS |
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