NHS Comparators allows 18-week wait measuring
NHS organisations in England can now analyse their performance against the government’s 18-week wait target using a new service launched by NHS Comparators. The service also provides information from other NHS organisations so users can see how their organisation is performing in comparison to others. New sets of information added to the online service this […]
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Countdown to the 18 week wait
By December 2008 all non-urgent NHS patients should start their hospital treatment within 18 weeks of referral, a major challenge with IT at the heart of providing the solutions.
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Brown says information key to promoting self care
Self care supported by information and advice from professionals is a major theme in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s New Year message on the NHS. He also pledged to bring in a new constitution for the service – celebrating its 60th anniversary this year – setting out the rights and responsibilities associated with an entitlement to […]
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Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson
Senior staff at Medway NHS Trust are piloting McKesson’s Horizon Business Insight solution in order to extract performance information at the click of a button. The system has been widely deployed across the US, and McKesson have been working with Medway to configure it to meet the needs of the English NHS. The system, known […]
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NHSmail promotes free SMS for reminders
NHSmail users are being encouraged to use the system’s free text messaging to remind patients about healthcare appointments. Contractors, Cable & Wireless’ head of frameworks, Ian Fowler, told E-Health Insider: “Since we launched the NHSmail service, we have seen the use of the SMS functionality grow. Currently we are seeing around 250,000 texts sent across the service […]
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Worthing to switch on Millennium PAS
Worthing Hospital NHS Trust will this weekend become the latest hospital in the South of England to go live with a new patient administration system from Fujitsu. The trust will switch over to the Cerner Millennium PAS software, known as Cerner release zero, under the multi-billion NHS IT programme. Worthing will become the seventh NHS […]
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UCLH deploys 18 week RTT solution
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a new system from LogicaCMG to support compliance with the government’s 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) objective. The trust wanted to be able to electronically track the progress of every patient referred to them to ensure that they were offered an appointment within 18 weeks, […]
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DH terminates diagnostics contract with Atos
The Department of Health has confirmed that it has terminated the £257m contract for diagnostic services in North-west and South-west England. The DH in April suspended the contract after an independent review following concerns about quality and administrative procedures. The contract had originally been awarded to Atos in December, who had signed Cerner as their […]
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First go live with Ardentia 18 week wait tool
Business intelligence specialists, Ardentia, have completed their first full go-live of the Pathway Manager 18 week wait monitoring tool, and have announced a further two orders from NHS trusts. Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is the first to have deployed the new Pathway Manager package, which was developed with Microsoft, and pools together reporting data […]
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Millennium R0 not capturing 18 week referrals data
NHS trusts in the South of England using Cerner Millennium Release 0 are not yet able to electronically capture 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) data, one of the government’s key objectives for the NHS. Trusts have been required to report on RTT times since January, with the target to be achieved for all 18-week […]
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