Northumbria tenders for a new PAS, again
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a new patient administration system, together with some elements of an electronic patient record.
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Shrewsbury pilots Neutrino BI
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is piloting a new self-service business intelligence solution from Neutrino Concepts, dubbed the “Google of BI.” The trust, which became the first in the country to implement Neutrino Information Release Appliance (NIRA) at the beginning of the year, is using it to gather information for 18 week reporting. The system […]
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Manifesto destiny
As the general election campaign reaches its final weeks, Lyn Whitfield looks at what the three main parties’ manifestos have to say about healthcare and IT.
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Barts faces fines over Cerner problems
Barts and the London NHS Trust faces fines of £400,000 a month for missing patient care targets as a result of problems with its new Cerner Millennium Care Records System, MPs have been told. Richard Bacon, the Conservative MP for South Norfolk, and a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said the new Cerner […]
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Barts 18 week backlog in thousands
A new care record system has contributed to thousands of patients from Barts and the London NHS Trust potentially breaching the national 18-week referral to treatment time target. The trust is facing a backlog of 23,000 potential breaches, and although it says the situation is improving – and it has resumed reporting on 18-week waits […]
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Barts still stuck on 18-week waits
Barts and the London NHS Trust is still unable to report on the national 18-week referral to treatment time target and other key activity targets, four months after its reporting system was suspended. The trust suspended reporting on 18-week RTT waits in March and doesn’t expect to be able to resume until September. It has also […]
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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Fujitsu exit may hinder trusts on 18-week waits
NHS trusts in the South of England may struggle to reach the national 18-week wait referral to treatment (RTT) target, as a result of the ending of Fujitsu’s contract to provide IT systems, including software to monitor waiting times. The warning, made by healthcare business intelligence specialist Ardentia, comes in the week that the Department […]
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Dudley use Ardentia to hit 18 week milestone
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS expects to reach the government’s 18 week referral-to-treatment target six months early partly thanks to use of software to track patient pathways. The trust has already met the national March targets of 90% for non-admitted patients and 85% for admitted patients to be treated within a maximum of 18 weeks […]
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Blackpool deploys new patient journey system
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a new Patient Journey Management System (PJMS) from IMS Maxims. The trust has already hit the NHS 18 week Referral To Treatment target, and is using the system to more closely monitor patient journeys and predict any potential problems in advance of treatment. Philip Graham, […]
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