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A Spours

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PubMed1996

Clinical benchmarking: results into practice.

Describes the way benchmarking data are used in a district general hospital to influence clinical practice. Wirral Hospital Trust is a site for the Electronic Patient Record Project; as such there is a large amount of patient based data available for research and internal benchmarking. Includes working examples of internal benchmarking which have been used by both clinicians and hospital management to improve hospital effectiveness. Discusses the ways in which this information is being used to develop initiatives such as clinical pathway development.

Critical Pathways↗
PubMed1993

The real costs of computerisation.

In the NHS hospital environment, people tend to be discouraged by the seemingly unsupported cost figures associated with IT. After the successful implementation of an IT system at the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, IT Manager, Alan Spours, argues that cost figures have to be seen in the context of deliverable cost benefits and the ability of IT to offer significant returns in the form of improved levels of care.

Capital Expenditures↗