Autoforwarding to be downgraded in NHSmail
Connecting for Health have announced automatic forwarding from its email service NHSmail to most e-mail addresses – including site-specific NHS addresses ending in ‘nhs.uk’ – will be turned off at the end of the month for security reasons. From 30 September, any automatic forwarding of messages to email addresses outside the government secure network will be […]
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Buckinghamshire goes live with Cerner
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has become the third NHS trust in the South of England to begin to use clinical software from Cerner under the £12.4bn National Programme for IT. The Amersham and Wycombe Hospitals, Chalfont & Gerrards Cross Hospital and Marlow Cottage Hospital all went live at eight yesterday morning, after a day of […]
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Patients cannot remember C+B referral options
A total of 80% of patients in Selby and York Primary Care Trust claimed they were not offered a choice of hospital on referral when the Department of Health questioned them for Choose and Book. The results of the survey on 649 patients will reinforce concerns from GPs that patients will fail to recall being […]
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Finance software taken up by 150 trusts
Public Sector Costing Associates Limited (PSCAL) is celebrating signing up its 150th NHS customer to use its Payment by Results and Cost Management Systems. The company was formed in 2002 by IT consultants Sandra Black and Lizo Ngqobongwana, who responded to calls from NHS staff for a system to assist with the National Schedule of […]
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CfH changes tack on GP Systems of Choice
NHS Connecting for Health has decided to go out to tender for suppliers to take part in GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC). An advertisement will be placed in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) once Treasury approval for the scheme has been received. It will mean on-going contract negotiations with individual GP suppliers […]
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Sheffield concluded iPM was ‘not fit for purpose’
A confidential review of the two Local Service Provider versions of iSoft’s iPM patient administration system carried out by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust concluded the system was not, in its team’s opinion, “fit for purpose” and created “clinical risks”, due to a series of performance issues. The team looked at versions of the […]
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Hosted INPS and iSoft accredited by CfH
Two hosted GP practice systems have so far received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health. INPS Vision 3 Enterprise edition, as offered by the Capital Care Alliance in the London cluster and iSoft Synergy Enterprise, as offered by Accenture in the North Eastern and Eastern clusters, have met CfH’s requirements for hosted systems under the […]
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QFLU to provide daily information
A national data collection system for flu involving nearly 3,000 UK practices will now provide information on a daily basis to improve planning in case of an influenza pandemic, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced. The agency says the QFLU system, developed in conjunction with Nottingham University and GP computer suppliers EMIS, will generate […]
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Cheshire tests telehealth vital signs monitor
Two Cheshire care agencies have teamed up with a housing trust to pilot the Genesis machine, a new telehealth product that monitors patients with long term conditions from home. Cheshire County Council Social Services Department and Central Cheshire Primary Care Trust have partnered with Weaver Vale Housing Trust in the venture. Weaver Vale, which manages […]
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Some N3 links ‘too slow for Choose and Book’
A fanfare for the near completion of the new NHS network, N3, has been met with complaints that some GP practices with new broadband connections are not receiving enough bandwidth even to use the e-referral system, Choose and Book, effectively. Announcements last week from the network’s purchaser, Connecting for Health, and supplier, BT, brought numerous […]
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