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Metavision live at new Cumbria hospital

7 January 2016

The recently opened West Cumberland Hospital in Cumbria has gone live with a new computer system for its intensive care unit.

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Ambulance trust uses forms on iPads

6 January 2016

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is working with Kainos to develop a version of its Evolve patient record software for ambulance services, and piloting the use of iPads to let paramedics complete forms to add to the system.

ICO fines HIV treatment centre £250

6 January 2016

A specialist HIV treatment centre has been fined £250 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after it revealed the identities of patients through an email error.

IT funds to come from transformation pot

5 January 2016

NHS England has indicated that it wants to stop running tech funds and to start allocating money to IT from a wider Sustainability and Transformation Fund linked to new, five year Sustainability and Transformation Plans.

Online pharmacy faces tech problems

5 January 2016

The UK’s biggest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, has left patients without essential medication for weeks as it struggles with technical problems at its new warehouse facility

PAC slams GPES failures

4 January 2016

Whitehall is continuing to fail to learn from IT disasters, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report that also makes stinging criticisms of the organisations involved in the late, over-budget and under-performing GP Extraction Service.

Child health digital strategy promised

4 January 2016

NHS England wants to create a single view of a child’s health record, available online to healthcare professionals and accessible to patients and carers.