Storm over Fujitsu executive’s ‘honest’ NPfIT remarks
A senior executive from local service provider to the Southern cluster, Fujitsu, has said that the intense pressure suppliers are under to deliver short-terms risks the wider aims of the NHS National Programme for IT systems, resulting in a danger of it delivering “a camel, and not the racehorse that we might try to produce.” […]
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Doubts raised on potential iSoft sale to McKesson
The potential £200m sale of iSoft may be in jeopardy, according to a report in the Times today which says that preferred bidder McKesson has insisted on unspecified contract conditions that would prevent a deal being concluded. According to the newspaper, US health IT and drugs distribution giant McKesson has been front-runner to buy iSoft. […]
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Crisp report says eHealth needed in developing world
The UK should give increased emphasis to the use of ICT and other new technologies in improving health and health services in developing countries, according to Lord Crisp, the former NHS chief executive. In a Global Health Partnerships report, Crisp suggests that new technology and approaches are not yet being seen as central to international […]
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Online doctor faces GMC over internet prescribing
A GP who prescribed betablockers for a 16-year-old boy over the internet thwarted attempts by other doctors to keep the youngster off medication, the General Medical Council heard. Julian Eden, a GP who ran online service e-med, prescribed the drugs to the boy, who had a history of mental illness, without discussing it with his […]
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OJEU notice signals start of GP systems procurement
Procurement for GP Systems of Choice will begin this week and be complete in three months’ time, finally delivering the right to IT system choice enshrined in the 2003 GMS contract, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. CfH has received approval from the Treasury to proceed with the procurement and a notice has today been […]
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GP questions Hewitt on ‘vanishing’ C+B services
A GP has questioned health secretary Patricia Hewitt about the use of Choose and Book for demand management as a forthcoming survey highlights growing disquiet among doctors about “vanishing services” on the e-booking system. Dr Andrew Gray, a GP at the Village Medical Centre in Great Denham, Bedford, used last week’s webchat with Patricia Hewitt […]
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New Cerner deployment goes live in Hampshire
Another health community within the Southern Cluster has gone live with Cerner’s Milllennium patient administration system, delivered by local service provider, Fujitsu as part of the NHS IT programme. The Cerner system was deployed into three trusts, including one acute trust, as part of the implementation into what Fujitsu terms the ‘Hampshire Deployment Family’. The trusts […]
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Let patients see correspondence, says DH
The Department of Health will be writing to primary care professional bodies, urging them to encourage members to copy patients into correspondence between clinicians. Patients are already entitled to view correspondence relating to their care under The NHS Plan (2000) which says: “Letters between clinicians about individual patient’s care will be copied to the patient […]
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CD record transfers opposed by Hampshire PCT
A primary care trust has recommended that GP practices do not transfer patient records using a CD citing concerns over the IT literacy of practices and the security of patient information. The CD transfer system, developed in Hertfordshire and backed by NHS Connecting for Health as an interim measure, enables practices to send a CD-ROM […]
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New e-qualification launched for teen cancer care
Coventry University claimed a first today with the launch of what it describes as a “global virtual classroom created to teach health professionals.” The new e-learning facility will offer healthcare professionals the chance to obtain a postgraduate certificate in cancer care for teenagers and young adults which has been accredited by the Paediatric Oncology Nurse […]
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