BT hits 18,000 N3 connections ahead of schedule
BT has announced that it has successfully reached the 18,000 N3 broadband connections across the NHS, hitting its milestone two months ahead of schedule. The 18,000 plus N3 connections means that N3 now covers nearly 97% of UK GPs and one million NHS staff. Connecting for Health had initially set BT an April deadline to connect 18,000 sites […]
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Wales to digitise ambulance radio network
The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is to receive £55m from the Welsh Assembly government to invest in the O2 Airwave communication system and upgrade their control rooms. O2 Airwave is a secure digital radio network dedicated for the exclusive use of the UK’s emergency and public safety services. Designed to carry voice and data […]
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns
A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting difficulties with the system "could have an impact on all remaining Cluster R0 go-live dates". The trust board paper seen by EHI warns that should delays to the availability of a system that meets requirements […]
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High-tech radios rollout for ambulances in 2007
A new radio system to be installed by all NHS ambulance trusts in England beginning in early 2007 will offer interoperability with other emergency services and better coverage in rural areas, the Department of Health said today. Ambulance trusts have chosen to implement radio terminals provided by Sepura which will operate on the O2/Airwave network, […]
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NHS Direct launches on Freeview for Christmas
NHS Direct is bracing itself for its busiest Christmas period since its launch in 1999, having launched a new channel on Freeview to enable it to reach an extra 6.4 million households. The service is expecting to take over 70,000 calls and have over 50,000 website hits in Christmas week – with most calls expected […]
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Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR
The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although some patients will now get the chance to view their record online before information is uploaded for sharing. The decision appears to have won the backing of the British Medical Association and the Royal College […]
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Map of Medicine to pilot PDA access
Map of Medicine are to pilot a PDA-based version of their evidence-based clinical pathway information system for the first time in the UK. In July, the company developed a PDA version that featured seven pathways of care, called the Mobile Map of Medicine, in Kenya. The company is now about to launch the pilot version […]
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LSPs fail ‘acid test’ on PAS deployments
Delivery of the patient administration systems due to form the foundation for future electronic patient records in NHS hospitals has stalled with only a fifth of the systems promised in June actually installed. In June NHS Connecting for Health said that 22 acute NHS trusts would get new PAS systems by the end of October. […]
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Granger says he wants ‘catalogue’ of additional suppliers
The boss of the NHS IT agency Connecting for Health (CfH) has said that he intends to create a catalogue of suppliers able to provide additional capacity and systems to help deliver the late-running £6bn National Programme for NHS IT. The intention appears to be to increase capacity and plug gaps in key specialist systems, […]
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7/7 report announces new radios for ambulances
Ambulance services will get a new radio system, O2 Airwave, allowing them to communicate from underground in the event of an attack. The news was revealed in a Home Office report on the 7 July bombings as a response to criticism suggesting failures in the telecommunication equipment used by the emergency services led to a […]
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