Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’
Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final stages of being drawn up by Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider understands that the supplier catalogue plans being drawn up may cover […]
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Tunstall help Brighton extra care housing win EU award
Telecare specialists Tunstall has helped an extra care housing scheme in Brighton win a European design award, aimed at promoting independent living. Tunstall deployed their Comunicall telecare system into the £3m New Larchwood extra care housing scheme, which is run by the Hanover Housing Association, and was developed with Brighton and Hove City Council. Communicall […]
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Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner
Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with a Cerner patient administration system supplied by local service provider Fujitsu as part of the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. In addition to the acute trust the system has gone live into community hospitals […]
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Five trusts sign up for e-rostering software
Five NHS trusts and a private hospital group are set to adopt Manpower Software’s MAPS Healthroster system which is designed to ease the staffing issues at hospitals and trusts and help to control costs. Manpower says the MAPS solution has been designed for, and in partnership with, the NHS and healthcare market. It aims to deliver verified […]
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Summary care records planned for end of 2008
Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end of 2008. Guidance prepared by CfH for strategic health authorities makes it clear that the Clinical Summary Record will be implemented in two phases. Phase one, due to begin by Easter, will consist of an […]
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Scottish GPs to start issuing barcoded scrips
Scotland’s electronic transmission of prescriptions project is to get underway in April when GP practices will begin to produce barcoded prescriptions for almost all prescribing. By the end of the next financial year Scotland aims to have fully implemented ETP via its eAcute Medication Service (eAMS) and implemented repeat dispensing through its eChronic Medication Service […]
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Trafford enables GPs and hospitals to share EPR
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has developed a new electronic patient record system with assistance from software developers, Graphnet Health, and booking specialists, Ultragenda. The new system collects and shares information across the local health community and works alongside the trusts’ existing iSoft Patient Administration System. Trafford’s head of IM&T, John Bain, told E-Health Insider: “We […]
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NHS Wales streamlines test sample processing
GPs and nurses across Wales are to switch to using printed labels and barcodes when they send test samples to the lab for analysis. Hand-written request forms and labels will be phased out over the next six months under an initiative from Informing Healthcare Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government programme set up to modernise the […]
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Bradford to be first ex-Accenture acute trust to go live
The first acute trust in the two NHS clusters that Computer Sciences Corporation officially took over from Accenture in January has told E-Health Insider it is confident it will go live with a new patient administration system by this April. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told E-Health Insider that it is on track […]
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500th practice goes live with SystmOne GP system
StowHealth Centre has become the 500th practice to go live with the SystmOne integrated GP record system provided by TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) and delivered by the CSC Alliance for NHS Connecting for Health. The new GP system, which provides a shared GP clinical record, will support the delivery of care for the 15,500 […]
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