Southern procurements on track
NHS Connecting for Health has notified suppliers of whether they have been invited to participate in the procurement for community and child health systems in the South of England.
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That’ll BI lovely
North Bristol NHS Trust won the excellence in healthcare information management category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT.
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CQC raises discharge concerns
Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according to the Care Quality Commission’s report on the state of care in England.
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Second southern RiO site goes live
Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has become the second southern trust to go-live with RiO, following the additional contract that BT was awarded under the National Programme for IT in the NHS last year.
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Lorenzo ‘will stop at Release 2’
CSC may only deliver the first two releases of Lorenzo, the electronic patient record system being deployed across the North, Midlands and East of England, under the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Birmingham Women’s next with Lorenzo
Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust looks set to be the second acute trust to implement Lorenzo Release 1.9 under the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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NME at the gate
Sarah Bruce surveys the state of the National Programme for IT in the NHS in the North, Midlands and East of England, where the battle is to get Lorenzo live.
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NHS Choices to publish Quality Accounts
The Department of Health has approved plans for healthcare providers to publish annual Quality Accounts on the NHS Choices website in an effort to increase accountability, drive quality and improve patient choice. The plans follow a three month public consultation, which finished in December, on the proposed framework for Quality Accounts, ahead of the legal […]
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Luton integrates with Ensemble
Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust has started using InterSystems Ensemble to integrate its applications in preparation for the Lorenzo electronic patient record system.
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100 polyclinics to shake-up London
NHS London has set out a five year strategy for overhauling healthcare in the capital that includes plans to move care out of hospitals, open more than 100 polyclinics, and make greater use of email and telephone consultations. IT is at the heart of many of the plans outlined in the newly-published First Stage Report on the capital’s strategic […]
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