Government refuses independent review of NPfIT
The government has refused to hold an independent review of the National Programme for IT in their response to the Public Accounts Committee report on NHS IT. According to a report in Computerworld UK, the news is revealed in a set of Treasury minutes, where the government have promised to publish a full annual statement […]
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Barriers to telehealth spelt out
Barriers and possible solutions to the implementation of telecare and telehealth have been set out in latest advice from the government agency providing support for telecare. The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) has listed more than 20 potential problems faced by organisations commissioning and integrating telecare into health, housing and social services. Issues raised by […]
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Central Middlesex counts benefits of VoIP
Staff at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, have benefited from a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system from Nortel which has helped reduce call charges and system administration, without needing to change any telephone numbers. The hospital, part of the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, was being redeveloped as part of a Private […]
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Contract ‘reset’ underway in the South
The new NHS programme director for the NHS IT programme in the South of England says she is not happy with the core patient administration system delivered so far, and confirmed that a far-reaching ‘reset’ of contracts has been launched. Sarah Elmendorf took up the new post of programme director at the Southern Programme for […]
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Fujitsu says ‘full steam ahead’ in South
Half of the Southern cluster’s 35 sites have agreed ‘full steam-ahead’ go-live dates to take the initial Millennium patient administration system, E-Health Insider has learned from local service provider (LSP) for the region, Fujitsu. Fujitsu’s managing director for the UK public sector, Peter Hutchinson, told E-Health Insider that the local service provider is engaged in […]
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Staffordshire PCTs hit retinopathy target
Malcolm Gray screens patient Three Staffordshire primary care trusts have managed to meet national targets and screen over 28,000 patients in a year for diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness if left untreated. The Staffordshire Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service, run on behalf of South Staffordshire, North Staffordshire and Stoke on […]
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Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has begun piloting iSoft’s iCM clinical management system on two wards, five years after they signed a ten-year deal with the supplier. The trust first signed a contract with iSoft in October 2002, just before the National Programme for IT began in earnest and have been sporadically working on implementing […]
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Ireland to invest Euros 500m in e-health
The Irish Government will commit almost half a billion Euros of investment to e-health when it publishes its National Development Plan for health.
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Patientline reverses on patient call charges
Patientline, the hospital entertainment and phone provider, will reduce the prices on outgoing telephone calls from tomorrow, just four months after they increased rates. The company was forced to restructure its fees in April, when they revealed they were £80m in debt and needed to make up expenditure costs. This was followed in June, with […]
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Norwegian 24-hour telephone advice launched
Norway’s Norsk Helse Telefon 24 (NHT24) a private provider of telephone triage services to Norway and other Scandinavian countries has chosen Clinical Solutions to provide the software behind its telephone health advice service. NHT24 was launched in June, offering subscription-based telephone advice services to people living in Scandinavian countries. "NHT24 is entirely a private […]
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