Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it deployed seven new IT systems to GP practices and healthcare community settings, in the first two weeks of taking over responsibility as local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North East and East of England.
Rotherham Primary Care Trust in South Yorkshire has gone live with the SystmOne Community solution supplied by The Phoenix Partnership (TPP), and delivered by CSC. Kirklees PCT, Huddersfield, then went live with TPP’s Child Health solution.
CSC said in a statement: "Momentum is building with many more PCT solutions being rolled out across CSC’s regions in the coming months."
In addition to the two community systems five GP practices have received new systems, again supplied by TPP. The five included one in Essex, one in Northamptonshire and three in the Yorkshire region.
EHI understands from CSC sources that the company will continue to offer TPP solutions across its two new NHS clusters, and will also look to offer TPP into its existing North West and West Midlands cluster.
Leigh Donoghue, director of primary care with CSC, said: “It is a significant achievement to deliver this Primary Care IT Solution to these seven NHS organisations at such an early stage of the transfer of the contract to CSC. We have been able to show our NHS clients that the pace of delivery has continued, assuring them that the move to a fully integrated patient records system will be realised.”
Helen Springer, TPP Project Manager, said: "It’s great to have deployed SystmOne across three different healthcare settings in one week with CSC."
CSC says that the integrated Primary Care Solution offered provides GP practices and PCTs a suite of products that can manage the administration of activities such as patient home visit requests, staff rotas, pathology and blood results and patient appointments. The system is also said to "offers compatibility to allow NHS organisations to share administrative and clinical data in the future".
CSC completed taking over responsibility as LSP from Accenture in the North East and east of England on 8 January, in a transfer that had first been announced last September. The company has already acted as LSP for the North West and West Midlands regions for the past three years.
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