Relevant Information

It is difficult to find clear relevant information and almost always time consuming. The Health Edge website is designed to be a source of useful on-line information which can be accessed quickyl and easily.

Industry Bodies

GS1 UK

www.gs1uk.org

GS1 Ireland

www.gs1ie.org

Health Level 7

www.hl7.org.uk

HUG Healthcare User Group

www.gs1.org/sectors/healthcare

Government Bodies

Connecting for Health

www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk

Central Office of Information

www.coi.gov.uk

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

www.mhra.gov.uk

Department of Health

www.dh.gov.uk

Purchasing and Supply Agency

www.pasa.nhs.uk/pasaweb

Professional Associations

The Institute of Decontamination Sciences

www.idsc-uk.co.uk

Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management

www.iheem.org.uk

The Association of British Healthcare Industries (ABHI)

www.abhi.org.uk

Hospital Infection Society

www.his.org.uk

The UK eHealth Association

www.ukeha.co.uk

The Infection Control Nurses Association

www.icna.co.uk/

European Forum for Hospital Sterile Supply

www.efhss.com

The Health Quality Service

www.hqs.org.uk

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

www.nice.org.uk

Association for Perioperative Practice

www.afpp.org.uk

Reference Site Material

The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit

www.cjd.ed.ac.uk

Five trusts adopt 'scan and save' for surgical instruments

www.e-health-insider.com/news

GS1 in Healthcare

http://www.gs1uk.org/solutions/health/healthcare.asp

Healthcare Computing

www.healthcare-computing.co.uk/eventinfo/pressreleases/2007/gs1uk.htm

The European Healthcare Initiative

www.gs1-health.net/

GS1, HL7 Developing Global Standards Designed to Improve Patient Care

http://electronics.ihs.com/news/gs1-hl7-global.htm

Automated drug provision

www.logisticsit.com

GS1 Healthcare User Group

www.gs1.org/hug/about/members.html

Coding for Success: Simple technology for safer patient care

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_066082

Decontamination and Infection Control

Central Sterilising Club

www.csc.org.uk

European Forum for Hospital Sterile Supply

www.efhss.com

HealthcareA2Z

www.healthcarea2z.org

Infection Control Nurses Association

www.icna.co.uk

National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC)

www.nric.org.uk

NHS Estates

www.decontamination.nhsestates.gov.uk

NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA)

www.pasa.nhs.uk

The Hospital Infection Society

www.his.org.ukk

The Institute of Decontamination Sciencesv

www.idsc-uk.org

SEAC guidance

www.seac.gov.uk

Healthcare Standards Unit

www.hcsu.org.uk

NHS Education for Scotland: Healthcare Associated Infection

www.space4.me.uk/hai

Health Protection Agency

www.hpa.org.uk

Health Protection Scotland

www.hps.scot.nhs.uk

Scottish Decontamination Guidance

www.show.scot.nhs.uk/

Department of Health

Scotland

Scottish Executive Health Department

www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk

Scottish Parliament – National Health Plan

www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/health/onh-00.asp

Scotland's health on the website

www.show.scot.nhs.uk

England

Department of Health (DH)

www.dh.gov.uk

Wales

Welsh Assembly Health Department

new.wales.gov.uk/topics/health/?lang=en

Northern Ireland

Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

www.dhsspsni.gov.uk