Please find below our latest news.

  • Free Webinar: Formic Friends and Family Test

    May 10, 2013
    Find out more about the Formic Friends and Family Test solution – please join us for a FREE webinar demonstration with Chris Nweke on Wednesday 21st May 2013 – 10:00 – 10:30 Sign Up NOW – FREE Webinar demonstration on the Formic Friends and Family Test  ... Read more
  • Formic makes implementing the Friends and Family Test simple for existing customers.

    May 10, 2013
    Formic makes implementing the ‘Friends and Family Test’ simple for existing customers! If you have already invested in a Formic solution to design, process and analyse clinical audits and questionnaires,  why not utilise your software to undertake, the recently introduced ‘Friends and Family test’? Following government announcement, starting last month, all adult acute and A&E inpatients must ... Read more
  • New whitepaper – collecting and analysing patient experience feedback in adult social care.

    March 25, 2013
    NEW Whitepaper – Adult Social Care – collecting and analysing patient experience feedback. Following the new Health and Social Care Act, collecting and analysing patient experience feedback will become increasingly important in adult social care.   Health and social care services will need to demonstrate that they continuously understand the patient experience, and show improvement in the ... Read more
  • Health and Social Care Conference 2013

    March 4, 2013
    Representatives from Public Health at Leeds City Council will be reviewing the value that Formic’s efficient information collection solution can deliver, at the Health & Social Care Conference 2013. Lucy Jackson Public Health Consultant and Nichola Stephens-Potter Head of Intelligence and Performance Public Health, from Leeds City Council, will be guest speakers, on Formic’s behalf, at ... Read more
  • Somerset Community Health – Patient Satisfaction Surveys

    February 25, 2013
    Somerset Community Health uses Formic to help improve the quality of patient experience using patient satisfaction surveys. “The wireless tablet PCs have been a success in the community hospitals; we can send patient experience questionnaires and audits to these mobile devices, allowing staff to quickly and easily to collect data for a variety of projects including ... Read more
  • Clinical Audit Support Centre, Clinical Audit Survey 2012-13

    February 25, 2013
    Clinical Audit Support Centre, Clinical Audit Survey 2013-13 – Formic is delighted to have sponsored and managed the CASC (Clinical Audit Support Centre) clinical audit survey – The State of Clinical Audit – which took place in December 2012 and whose report has just been published. See: The State of Clinical Audit – Results. Since December 2010 the ... Read more
  • Formic to exhibit at the Clinical Audit for Improvement Conference 2013

    February 8, 2013
    Formic to exhibit at the Clinical Audit for Improvement Conference 2013. On the 12th and 13th February, at the Hallam Centre, London, we will be demonstrating the latest Formic patient experience and clinical audit solutions. Over 200 delegates are anticipated and the conference will focus on how to improve clinical audit at a local level, covering topics ... Read more
  • Formic announces the NHS Friends and Family Test solution

    February 5, 2013
    Formic announces the NHS Friends and Family Test solution. Many of Formic’s 300 NHS Trust customers are rapidly utilising Formic Fusion as a much more straight-forward, robust and faster way to deploy the NHS Friends and Family Test and measure and improve patient experience. The new Friends and Family Test in which patients will be asked if ... Read more
  • New Year, New Offices

    December 18, 2012
    New Year. New Offices. As of the 27th December 2012, Formic will be relocated to new offices at Stockley Park, Uxbridge. Our telephone and fax details will remain the same: Main Office: 0870 197 5600 Sales: 0870 197 5608 Support: 0870 197 5610 Fax: 0870 197 5601   Our new address is: Formic Ltd 8 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge UB11 1FW      ... Read more
  • Junior Doctor Clinical Audit of the Year

    November 20, 2012
    Formic’s CEO, John Morley, is to sit on the judging panel for The Clinical Audit Support Centre’s, ‘Junior Doctor Clinical Audit of the Year’ competition. Now in its third year, the competition showcases work of over 40 finalists. Formic will also be exhibiting at the event on Thursday 22nd November in Leicester which will include a number of ... Read more
  • Looking for web survey software? Use Formic for patient experience, clinical audit

    November 5, 2012
    Web Survey Software. How easy is it to use Formic web survey software? Whether you’re looking to administer web surveys for customer questionnaires, clinical audits, patient experience surveys or staff surveys, deploying forms to the web can provide organisations with accurate, effective results and realtime data. By using Formic web survey software you can quickly see any issues that ... Read more
  • NICE Clinical Audit Tool is easy with Formic

    November 5, 2012
    Clinical Audit Tool NICE have developed a ‘Clinical Audit Tool’, as an Excel spreadsheet, which is currently free for NHS Trusts to download and utilise. At the moment NHS Trusts have to manually input the data, from clinical audits, into this tool, which takes some time and is subject to error. NICE electronic clinical audit tools can ... Read more
  • National Clinical Audits (NCAs) as Formic Projects

    November 5, 2012
    Ready-Made National Clinical Audits Available in Formic In February 2012, the Department of Health confirmed a list of National Clinical Audits (NCAs) that had to be included in NHS Trust Quality Accounts. A full list of these is included on the HQIP website – Quality Accounts 2012-13 List of National Clinical Audits for Inclusion Confirmed. Organisations are now ... Read more
  • Get Back to Formic Survey Software for Clinical Audit and Patient Experience.

    November 5, 2012
    Use Formic Survey Software for Clinical Audit and Patient Experience. Is it time to get back to using Formic Survey Software for Clinical Audit and Patient Experience? Many  Clinical Audit and Patient Experience Departments regularly need to run and analyse regular surveys. We have found that many customers have reverted back to manually keying in data instead of using ... Read more
  • Formic helps Local Authorities with their Council Tax Benefit Consultation Questionnaires

    July 30, 2012
    Formic solutions can help Local Authorities design, process and analyse the results of their Council Tax Benefit Consultation Questionnaires.  New rules introduced by the Government mean that from April 2013, council tax will be abolished and replaced with local support for Council Tax.  As part of these changes, every Local Authority will have to undertake ... Read more
  • Automated data capture solution – a buyer’s guide for users

    July 2, 2012
    Making the decision to invest in an automated data capture solution is one thing. Choosing a supplier poses a whole new set of questions.  Formic has developed a ‘Buyers Guide for Users’ available to download to make sure that the solution you choose does exactly what you expect.  Please visit http://formic.com/downloads/download-buyers-guide-for-users/. If you want a solution ... Read more
  • CASC – Clinical Audit Conference – 4th July 2012

    May 23, 2012
    Formic is to support and exhibit at the CASC Clinical Audit Conference on the 4th July 2012, Leicester. 2012 is unquestionably a pivotal year for clinical audit. In recent months the National Advisory Group have called for a ‘new vision’ for clinical audit and on 20th March, Sir Bruce Keogh circulated a letter to key stakeholders ... Read more
  • HQIP Clinical Audit Awards 2013 Open for Submissions

    May 23, 2012
    HQIP has opened the submission period for entries to their annual Clinical Audit Awards 2013, ahead of the Clinical Audit Conference 12-13 February 2013, at the Hallam Centre, London, to which Formic will be exhibiting. Categories include: Partnership Working, Patient Involvement in Clinical Audit, and Creating or Improving Efficiencies. We hope that many of our Clinical Audit customers ... Read more
  • Download Whitepaper: The Case for a Tablet PC Data Capture Solution in Healthcare

    April 26, 2012
    Formic recently released its new Whitepaper, available to download for free. This Whitepaper investigates how the latest mobile technology: Tablet PCs, can enable healthcare professionals to become more efficient and accurate in their information collection for clinical audit, patient experience and infection control. Download PDF Whitepaper: The Case for a Tablet PC Data Capture Solution in Healthcare.   ... Read more
  • FREE Training Webinar: FORM DESIGN

    April 11, 2012
    Get more from the Formic Form Design Module. In this 1 hour training webinar, Formic Training Consultant, Chris Nweke, will demonstrate how to: Use external data to populate picklists Set up standard and extended field validation Create and configure user defined fields Set up pre-population for electronic forms Course Details: Date:             Wednesday 16th May 2012 Time:             10:30 (BST) / 11:30 (Europe) Duration:      1 Hour Cost:              ... Read more
  • Formic to exhibit at Clinical Audit and Improvement 2012 London

    February 6, 2012
    Formic is to exhibit at the Clinical Audit and Improvement Conference on the 7th and 8th February, at Cavendish Square Conference Centre, London. Through a series of focus sessions, panel discussions, masterclasses and poster presentations, this two-day conference brings together leading practitioners, clinicians, policy makers and academics, to set out the major developments, promote innovative areas ... Read more
  • Formic to exhibit at the National Healthcare Conference, Dublin, 22nd March 2012

    January 20, 2012
    Formic is to demonstrate its patient experience and clinical audit survey solutions for Tablet PC at the National Healthcare Conference in Dublin on Thursday 22nd March 2012. Formic’s Tablet PC Survey Software can enable mobile users to perform clinical audit surveys, patient experience surveys, infection control surveillance, as well as other clinical governance auditing, out and ... Read more
  • NHS hospitals and doctors to be judged against 60 new goals including Patient Experience

    December 7, 2011
    Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, today announced a new system to assess success in the health service based on the quality of patient care, which will include 60 benchmarks. Read Telegraph Article in Full. Extensive information on hospital death rates, the individual performance of surgeons and GPs and overall patient experience is to be published in order to ... Read more
  • CASC Clinical Audit Event – 17th November 2011

    October 17, 2011
    Formic is delighted to announce that it will be exhibiting at the Clinical Audit Support Centre’s Clinical Audit Event on 17th November 2011.  The Event incorporates the CASC’s second Junior Doctor Clinical Audit competition and full information of the conference  can be found by clicking here. A great line up of keynote speakers has been ... Read more
  • NHS Merseyside Clinical Audit Network Regional Event – 10th November 2011

    October 10, 2011
    Formic will be supporting and exhibiting at the next NHS Merseyside Clinical Audit Network Regional Event on the 10th November 2011. Around 120 delegates from NHS Trusts across the North West region are expected to attend.  Sessions for demonstrations on Formic Fusion software will be available early morning (from 9.00 till 9.45), mid morning (11.00 till ... Read more