iSoft probe shows ‘possible accounting irregularities’
Health IT supplier, iSoft Group, announced today that an initial investigation had uncovered evidence of irregularities in the company’s accounts for the financial years 2003-4 and 2004-5. The firm, which holds major contracts for supplying clinical software to England’s NHS National Programme for IT, said its board had "deemed it appropriate" to suspend Steve Graham, […]
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Cash constraints may ‘grey out’ C+B options, warns LMC
Patient choice may be restricted or “greyed out” under Choose and Book as cash strapped hospitals struggle to meet financial and waiting list targets, a local medical committee has warned. Avon LMC, operating in an area with one of the worst financial deficits in the country, claims patients may only be offered second or more […]
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PACS passes halfway stage in London and South
The programme to deploy Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in London and the South of England has passed the halfway stage. The milestone was passed 16 months after the first PACS from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) went live in the London cluster. Some 33 trusts have now rolled out PACS in the two […]
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Cegedim gets authorisation to deploy for EPS
Cegedim Rx has received authorisation from NHS Connecting for Health to deploy its pharmacy management system Nexphase for use with the electronic prescription service (EPS). The company says that Nexphase is used in approximately 1200 pharmacies. The company expects one of its two other systems, Pharmacy Manager, which is used by approximately 2100 pharmacies in […]
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E-mail reveals outage disrupted patient care
One week on from the computer failure that left 80 trusts in the North-west and West Midlands without access to their IT systems the extent of the disruption to patient care of the biggest ever NHS IT failure is coming to light. Despite claims to the contrary by NHS Connecting for Health, E-Health Insider has […]
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Cardiff implements city-wide PACS from Agfa
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust has announced it has gone live with an Agfa PACS solution that allows it to transfer images between its nine sites in and around the Welsh capital. Tom Henderson, PACS manager for the trust, explained: "In a trust of this size, it can sometimes be quite difficult to ensure that […]
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PM hopes for millionth C+B patient next month
The Prime Minister has said that he hopes the millionth patient to use the Choose and Book system will make his or her appointment in September. The brief mention of the NHS e-booking scheme came as part of the Prime Minister’s monthly press briefing in Downing Street. It was a piece of good news offered […]
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Complete Microsoft’s survey and help the NSPCC
Microsoft is developing a web portal dedicated to IT professionals working within the NHS. To ensure that they develop a site that best meets your needs they would like to hear from E-Health Insider readers through an online survey. For every 100 complete responses, Microsoft will donate £250 to the NSPCC. You can access the survey […]
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NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project
Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record patient hospital discharge information, which will then become available to GPs. The project, which will use Capula’s Oasis patient administration software, forms part of NHS Fife’s electronic health record programme known as HOISS (Healthcare Organisations […]
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Bradford Teaching Hospitals procures for PAS
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued a European procurement notice for a new patient administration system (PAS) to be supplied outside the scope of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NHS foundation trust placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union at the end of July for a […]
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