Nottingham buys CliniSys chemo prescribing solution
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen the CliniSys Oncology ChemoCare chemotherapy prescribing solution for three of its hospital sites, the software has been funded by NHS Connecting for Health. The solution will provide a multi pharmacy application for adults, haematology and paediatrics across the Nottingham City Hospital, Queens Medical Centre and Kingsmill Hospital. ChemoCare […]
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East and Midlothian physios get referral call centre
Therapists in the East Lothian and Midlothian Community Health Partnerships will be the first Scottish users of a centralised referral and appointment booking call centre, using an appointment module from Ethitec’s Tiara9 electronic patient record system. The East and Midlothian Physiotherapy Services has been using the Tiara 9 EPR system since 1995 and felt that the […]
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Milton Keynes MP asks when Millennium will be fixed
Reports of missing patient records resulting from the new Cerner Millennium system at Milton Keynes NHS Trust have led local Member of Parliament, Mark Lancaster, to write to the Health Secretary to ask when the Care Records System at the trust will be "fit for purpose". The system has been provided by local service provider […]
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Northern Doctors Urgent Care deploys new OOH system
Over 1.2 million patients in Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and South Tyneside should benefit from better out of hours medical advice over the phone, after Northern Doctors’ Urgent Care went live with a new TAS Odyssey decision support system from Plain Healthcare. The system went live at the at the NDUC headquarters call […]
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Ashford and St Peter’s integrates staff rosters with payroll
Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Trust have successfully integrated their Electronic Staff Records system with their MAPS Healthroster staff rostering system, provided by Manpower Software. The trust have introduced the system, which provides an integrated up-to-date view on staff working times, attendance and absence, to reduce the administrative workload for ward managers to electronically monitor […]
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Health and social care records ‘need framework’
Social services directors are calling for a national framework for care record standards across health and social care, after their survey found limited progress on implementation of the Electronic Social Care Record (ESCR). A survey conducted by the Association of Directors of Social Services found that although 94% of local authorities have made progress in […]
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Majority of GPs blame NPfIT for worsening morale
Almost three out of four GPs blame the National Programme for IT for worsening their morale in the last year, according to a survey of almost 500 family doctors. The poll of 477 GPs conducted by Medix and Doctor magazine found that more than half of GPs said their morale had worsened in the past […]
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St Mary’s deploys new colposcopy CIS
St Mary’s NHS Trust London, has deployed a new Colposcopy Clinical Information System from AxSys Technology into its gynaecology department. The trust has the largest colposcopy service of its kind within London and needed to replace its existing in-house database that was being used to collect clinical data for colposcopic investigations with a system that […]
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iSoft completes eight RIS installations in London
iSoft’s RadCentre radiology information system has been installed successfully into eight London trusts as part of a £3.9m deal with BT under the National Programme for IT, the company announced yesterday. RadCentre is iSoft’s radiology information system (RIS) designed to deliver radiology support across a multi-user computer network, enabling personal computers to be linked to […]
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PAC report brings brickbats and bouquets for NPfIT
Mixed reaction greeted the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee’s report on the National Programme for IT with critics and supporters dividing on predictable lines and the NHS Confederation saying the programme must be made to work, despite its problems. Health minister Lord Hunt, claimed the evidence taken to produce the report was outdated. “This PAC […]
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