Liverpool trust rejects delayed PACS
A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of a Connecting for Health (CfH) Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), due to delays and technical problems with the system. Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust told E-Health Insider that it had taken […]
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ETP potential
EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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Universal CRS sheds bright light on old issues
Many of the questions raised by electronic records are not new, but their universal nature sheds a bright light on current practice, according to Harry Cayton, chair of the Care Record Development Board (CRDB). “You find some very murky and dusty areas of practice,” he added in a presentation to the New Frontiers conference on […]
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CfH begins NHS information blitz
A marathon campaign to tell the nation about the NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS) gets underway today with a leaflet blitz on NHS staff. The 12 page leaflet, which is accompanied by a poster, gives an overview of how the programme will work and its impact on various aspects of modern care delivery. A […]
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18,000 GPs registered for care records
The number of NHS staff registered to eventually use the national NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS), when it becomes available, has trebled in the past two months and by the beginning of August stood at 75,216. According to figures obtained by E-Health Insider by the beginning of August there were 18,981 GPs registered to […]
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Secondary uses pose confidentiality challenge
Meeting the NHS’s need for more information while supporting individuals’ rights to confidentiality is a key challenge for the Secondary Uses Service, according to its leader. Jeremy Thorp, chair of the Secondary Uses Service project board, told the British Computer Society’s primary healthcare specialist group: “Through the NHS Care Record Service CRS we’ve got the […]
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Barts and The London chooses Ensemble for integration
Barts and The London NHS Trust has selected InterSystems’ Ensemble universal integration platform to integrate systems at its three hospitals in East London and the City. Ensemble will be used on a range of projects at the three prestigious London hospitals – The Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and The London Chest Hospital – […]
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Minister launches patient ‘guarantee’ on records
The government has published a series of commitments in the form of a guarantee on how nationally held electronic health records will be used. Health minister Lord Warner said that the new rules will ensure patients keep control over access to their health records in the delayed national database of patient records known as the […]
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Robot doctor has plans to link to NPfIT
St Mary’s NHS Trust, Paddington, is trialling the use of robot medics that will not only allow doctors to go on their rounds without leaving their chair but also may eventually connect to the National Programme for IT. The RP6 (Remote Presence) robots (right), dubbed ‘Sister Mary’ and ‘Dr Robbie’, are similar in design to […]
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New deal to share responsibility for CRS delays
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has confirmed that it has signed "shared governance arrangements" with BT and Fujitsu, LSPs for London and the south of England, that will spread responsibility for the late running core NHS Care Records Service (CRS) between the three parties. A spokesperson for NHS Connecting for Health, the new agency administering […]
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