Surrey and Sussex signs with Cerner
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has signed a ten-year contract to retain Cerner Millennium, using the London Procurement Partnership framework.
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Ipswich looks to model A&E demand
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust is working with geographical information systems supplier Esri to assess how its location analytics technology can help it to manage demand for hospital services.
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Northumbria issues framework tender
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has released a framework tender for a range of clinical systems that it says could be worth up to £200 million.
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Brighton’s Alert roll-out revised
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has revised its deployment of the Alert electronic patient record system to focus on “a core set of functionality”.
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Alien invasion? Call #team999
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has created an online game to educate people about what happens when they call 999.
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Blackpool retrenches on Alert EPR plans
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has admitted that it has failed to implement Alert as its electronic patient record system and is now going for a best of breed approach to EPR.
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West Cornwall to pilot record sharing
Eight GP practices in West Cornwall will pilot a data sharing scheme using Microtest’s Guru to allow local A&E clinicians and the local out-of-hours GP service with access to patients’ GP records.
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Dashboard shows ambulance waiting times
A dashboard update lets NHS managers in Wales see how many ambulances are waiting at the country’s A&E departments in near real time.
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Royal Liverpool creates A&E app
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has developed a mobile app to give staff access to emergency procedure guidelines.
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Devon and Torbay in Symphony
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Torbay and Southern Devon Heath and Care NHS Trust are buying an A&E system from Ascribe.
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