First ETP pilot goes live under the national programme
Ling House Medical Centre and Co-operative Group Pharmacy in Keighley, West Yorkshire, have become the sites to use Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ETP) under the National Programme for IT. A limited initial ETP service, which uses the Patient Demographic Service of the NHS Spine, went live on 21 February allowing patient prescriptions to be electronically […]
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The loneliness of being first
The IT industry has a phrase for being at the front of the queue for any complex new technology: being at the ‘bleeding edge’ of development. This is where Undercliffe GP practice in Batley, West Yorkshire has been since last August when it began work to become the first Spine-enabled primary care computer system under […]
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First spine-connected GP system goes live
Undercliffe practice in Batley, West Yorkshire has become the first in England to go live with a primary care computer system connected to the NHS data spine. The connection to the data spine – the new national database of key information about patients – will enable summary electronic patient records to be held for the […]
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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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Accenture adds four new firms to LSP team
Accenture, local service provider (LSP) for the North East and Eastern regions of the NHS in England, has added four further technology providers to its LSP ticket, signing deals with Cognos, EMC Documentum, First DataBank Europe and Informatica. In December 2003 Accenture won two LSP deals from the National Programme for IT to design, deliver […]
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First NPfIT deployment plans released
The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time, indicating what new IT systems are intended to be deployed to NHS organisations and by when, writes Jon Hoeksma. According to the plan, which is available here, deployment of hospital administration and clinical systems will begin […]
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EMIS sets out its version of ‘fact and fiction’
Primary Care systems supplier EMIS has issued its customers with a briefing about its relationship with the NHS National Programme for IT, claiming it has been frozen out of the National Programme with GPs penalised if they wish to retain or move to EMIS systems. While the document, entitled ‘Fact not Fiction’, says that EMIS remains fully supportive of […]
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Flexibility key, says Forrest
In an exclusive interview, Martyn Forrest, Regional Implementation Director for the North East of England sets out the challenges of making sure NPfIT is delivered.
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ComMedica finalises £33m PACS deal with CSC
ComMedica, the healthcare IT specialist originally spun out from Imperial College, London, has signed a £33m contract with CSC to supply its Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) imaging software to NHS trusts in England’s North-west and West Midlands. The eight and a half year contract will involve ComMedica providing PACS to the CSC Alliance […]
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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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