Insourcing works for Brighton and Sussex
‘Insourcing’ services has helped Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust gain the upper hand in its development of IT, the trust’s director of health informatics says.
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CSUs to spend £670m a year
The commissioning support units that will come into being on 1 April will spend around £700m a year on IT and other support services, according to a new report from EHI Intelligence.
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Info centre chair sought
The government wants to recruit someone with a “deep understanding of the transformative power of information and data” to be chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre-
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Royal Berks finances hit by Millennium
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is facing significant operational and financial pressures after implementing Cerner Millennium and expects to spend another £6.2m implementing the system this year.
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Keogh extends ‘outlier’ inquiry
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced that it is widening its inquiry into hospitals with apparently worrying mortality rates.
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Sussex ‘done and dusted’ with 2e2
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust will have “done and dusted” its contract with the now-defunct systems integrator 2e2 by next Monday, the trust’s IT director says.
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Pharma to report spend on docs
Pharmaceutical companies are starting to monitor and report the money they spend on promoting their products to healthcare professionals in the UK and Europe.
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Leeds and York takes BigHand
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is implementing a trust-wide digital dictation and workflow management system.
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Pathfinders losing their way
The government’s telehealth pathfinder scheme looks certain to fail to deliver a target of 100,000 telehealth users this year.
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Leeds gets teeth into PACS
Leeds Dental Institute has signed a contract with Infinitt for a dental picture archiving and communications system.
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