Relationship with Kuwait's MoH showcased by world leading paediatric hospital

Kuwait, 12 March 2015

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), one of the world's leading centres for treating sick children, together with TPP a UK based IT company, dedicated to delivering world class healthcare software through innovative products will be participating in the 6th Kuwait Medica Conference and Exhibition.

The conference, which aims to bring together the latest trends, products, services and ideas in healthcare, will take place from 16th - 18th March 2015 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Kuwait. At the conference, GOSH will deliver a presentation describing the need for electronic global networks that will help with appropriate easy patient data transfer and how GOSH is working with TPP to develop this. 

Professor Andrew Taylor, Divisional Director for Cardiorespiratory Services at GOSH and  speaker at the conference, said: "There is a strong demand for specialist children's healthcare services in Kuwait. This exhibition provides an opportunity to share best practice in paediatric patient care with medical and healthcare professionals, to stay current with the latest developments and innovations within the industry

"We are very happy to work together with TPP, a company dedicated to delivering world class healthcare software. With TPP's market leading experience, between us we are well placed to join up healthcare between Kuwait and the UK and will showcase our work as well as manage referrals between us and MoH Kuwait" further concluded Prof Taylor.  

Delegates from TPP will shed light on SystmOne: International referralswhich is a fully integrated solution allowing healthcare organisations in the Gulf to electronically refer their patients to treatment centres abroad. The solution benefits the patient, the referring organisation, the provider organisation abroad and any other relevant teams involved in patient care.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH)  is one of the world's leading centres for treating sick children, with the widest range of specialists under one roof in the UK.

With the UCL Institute of Child Health, GOSH is the largest centre for paediatric research outside the US, and play a key role in training children's health specialists for the future.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH)  treated over 1400 inpatients and over 9000 outpatients from the Middle East in 2013/14.

For media information, please contact:
Nadin Al Alami /  Stacy Lobo
ASDAA Burson Marstellar
Tel: 00965 22901571/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5  
Fax: 00965 2290157
Email: nadin.alami@bm.com / stacy.lobo@bm.com
Web: www.gosh.com.kw

TPP
TPP are a UK based IT company, dedicated to delivering world class healthcare software through their innovative product, SystmOne. Our philosophy is to join up healthcare across communities based on a single patient record ethos, improving access to clinical data and empowering patients to take part in their care. We are known for our outstanding achievements in the UK, providing electronic patient records on a single instance database for over 35 million patients, across 24 different NHS settings.

After 17 years of success in the UK, TPP is now looking to expand their offering to deliver connected care to new markets abroad.

Tel: +44113 20 500 93
Email: Gillian.johnson@tpp-uk.com
Web: www.tpp-uk.com

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