TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
City University London has unveiled the MyCare Card – a prototype, credit card-sized device that stores personal medical data.
If the card’s owner is taken ill or in- volved in an accident, paramedics can simply retrieve the card, plug it into a laptop’s USB port and gain instant access to a full medical his- tory.
The technology was developed by Professor Panicos Kyriacou, Direc- tor of City’s Biomedical Engineering Research Group, in collaboration with Coventry University and with £260k funding from the Engineer- ing and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Kyriacou comments: “When dealing with a medical emergency, patients may be unconscious or unable to communicate with paramedics. Our device makes potentially life-saving data easily accessible.”
Initial trials have been successful and the development team now hopes to work with organisations in the healthcare sector to undertake a full-scale pilot programme. If that programme is also completed suc- cessfully, the system could be avail- able for patient use within three to four years.
An NHS graduate nurse has been jailed for 21 months soon after completing her training after being found guilty of defrauding the NHS of £38,931.50.
The money is the total cost of Gil- bertha Mutyoza’s course fees, as she obtained the bursary by using falsifi ed documents, as she did not have leave to remain in the UK.
The 47-year-old, of Andrewsfi eld,
Welwyn Garden City, was investi- gated by NHS Protect before the trial at Luton Crown Court.
She was anonymously reported to the NHS Fraud and Corruption Re- porting Line soon after graduating from an NHS commissioned and funded three year nursing diploma course at the University of Hertford- shire.
She applied for a NHS student bur-
sary by providing forged copies of a genuinely issued UK visa, indicating that she had indefi nite leave to re- main in the UK.
She also supplied NHS Student Bursaries with a false UK National Insurance number.
She pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to disclose information, and was found guilty by a jury of fi ve other counts.
NHS Protect’s National Investiga- tion Service Anti-Fraud Lead, Mick Hayes, said: “NHS Protect will check up on any suspicions of fraud against the NHS.
“Wherever appropriate it will mount an investigation, press for a pros- ecution and push for the strong- est sanctions. A genuine applicant may have lost out as a result of this course place and bursary being taken up illegally.”
70 | national health executive Jul/Aug 11
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