PACS installed across rural Welsh NHS Trust
North West Wales NHS Trust is to implement LifeImaging PACS software from Ferrania across its nine hospitals, many of which fall in rural areas. According to Ferrania, the filmless system will have particular benefits for the trust as it will save them money and time transporting copies of files between sites, as well as cutting […]
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Accenture’s LSP boss says delivery to ‘step up’
The managing director of Accenture’s health team has said that the pace of delivery in the North East and Eastern regions of the National Programme for IT is now set to step up a gear. Deployment of new systems and services to GPs, hospitals and mental health services by will have begun by Easter, he […]
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First NPfIT SAP system uses data spine
Software that operates using a working version of the data spine has been installed by Accenture under the NPfIT in trusts in Newcastle and Northumberland to support the Single Assessment Process (SAP) for older people. SAP was introduced under the National Service Framework for older people in 2001 to increase the share of data between […]
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Geordie GUM website may spare patients’ blushes
Newcastle PCT have launched a website for their genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinic with the help of the local rugby team and a cartoon mascot, Blush. The site, which contains a self-diagnosis section, a step-by-step guide to visiting the clinic and an A-Z of infections, was opened by Stuart Grimes and Joe Shaw from the Newcastle Falcons. “Staff […]
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Survey finds IT consultation inadequate or non-existent
A new survey of doctors’ views of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) shows 92% of medics questioned felt that personal consultation with them had been inadequate or non-existent. The survey by Medix, conducted for the BBC, asked a sample of just over 500 doctors for their views of consultation about the programme and tested their […]
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NHS electronic appraisals to be extended
An online package for filling out NHS appraisals is to be extended from GPs and consultants to more levels of staff, namely staff and associate specialists and non-consultant career grades. The NHS Appraisal Toolkit allows doctors to prepare their documentation at both pre- and post-appraisal, keep an “electronic appraisal record" and also share the signed-off […]
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Three NHSIA offices to go in Lyons rationalisation
Three NHS Information Authority offices in south east England are to be closed and their 142 staff offered relocation and retraining, it was announced today. The offices are in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, which has 17 staff; South Ruislip, Middlesex, with 30 staff; and Winchester, Hampshire, the largest office affected, which has 95 staff. The Huntingdon office […]
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Worthing NHS Trust goes digital with Ferrania
Worthing and Southlands NHS Trust has chosen Ferrania LifeImaging to implement the latest digital imaging technology, in a move designed to increase efficiency within the trust’s hospitals and improve patient care. The trust’s existing analogue equipment will be replaced with Ferrania’s OnNet Web Browser, reporting workstation and Mitra PACS broker systems, supported by computed radiography […]
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Newcastle Hospitals awards Ferrania RIS/PACS contract
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has completed a pilot procurement of community-wide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS), in a move designed to provide a template for National programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements in PACS/RIS systems. After a competitive procurement the trust has awarded Ferrania UK’s LifeImaging division a […]
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Clinician Involvement Essential in IT Planning Says BMJ
The essential importance of involving frontline clinicians in the evolution of their workplace information systems is underlined this week in a British Medical Journal editorial. Writing about the evolution of the national data spine, Dr Nick Booth from the Centre for Health Services Research at Newcastle University, says: “So far the new team running the […]
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