South Manchester switches on PAS from CSC
The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust has announced that it has gone live across the organisation with a new patient administration system supplied by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The acute hospital becomes the eleventh large hospital to switch on an iSoft iPM PAS system supplied by CSC as part of the NHS National […]
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SystmOne to be offered in NWWM
TPP’s SystmOne is now being offered as an integrated primary care solution to users in the NHS Connecting for Health North West and West Midlands (NWWM) cluster with local service provider, CSC. The move was announced by TPP, the Leeds-based supplier that already supplies SystmOne in the North-east and Eastern clusters formerly managed by Accenture and taken over […]
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Accenture completes handover to CSC
Management consultancy Accenture will today complete its hand over of two separate billion pound NHS IT contracts to Computer Sciences Corporation. Sources close Accenture suggest that the handover was completed at midnight Sunday, while a CSC spokesperson said that the arrangements would be completed by this evening. The change comes three years after Accenture won […]
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NHS ramps up spend on management consultants
Spending on management consultants across the public sector has reached a record a record £3bn a year, with an increase of over a third in the past two years, according to new figures released by the National Audit Office. The increase in spending over the past two years is largely driven by the increased use […]
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Concern over slow progress in acute sector
A board paper written for the largest NHS trust in England says that its region of the National Programme for IT does not have a roadmap for delivering an electronic care record. The report, submitted to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, by director of informatics, Brian Derry and his deputy, Alastair Cartwright, in October says: […]
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DH carrying out ‘confidential’ review of CfH
E-Health Insider has learned that an urgent ‘confidential’ review of the NHS IT programme and structure of Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for its delivery, has been launched by the new chief executive of the NHS David Nicholson. The new boss of the health service has commissioned a review of the £6.2bn NHS digitisation […]
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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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Newcastle looks outside CfH for maternity
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a new maternity system and key elements of a new electronic health record system, outside the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The trust is making the move to mitigate risks created by delays to the Connecting for Health programme growing beyond the current two […]
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On the road
EHIPC talks to GP clinical lead Professor Mike Pringle about how CfH will use its new national GP engagement workshops.
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CSC says it will implement iPM at Bradford in six months
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which had gone outside the NHS National Programme for IT to procure for a new patient administration system, has come back into the fold. The trust has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to implement iSoft’s iPM in just six months, in a deal underwitten by NHS […]
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