DH’s lead on acute choice leaves
The NHS chief information officer leading work on offering acute trusts in the South a choice of IT systems has left the Department of Health for a new job. John-Jo Campbell, the chief information officer at NHS South Central SHA, had been seconded to the DH’s Informatics Directorate by director general of informatics Christine Connelly. […]
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Blackpool uses ASCC for EPR procurement
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has begun a procurement process for elements of an electronic patient record using the ASCC framework catalogue.
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CfH one of ‘big three’ users of consultants
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has identified NHS Connecting for Health as one of the big three users of management consultants in the health service. However, at a House of Commons Health Committee evidence session, he said the Department of Health was looking to “significantly reduce the amount of consultancy we use” and members should […]
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Calling time
Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
Has the bar been dropped so low that the NHS IT programme is now guaranteed to succeed? Asks Jon Hoeksma.
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Rotherham and Barnsley ASCC procurement
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust have become among the first in the country to complete a procurement using the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework contract. The two trusts have used ASCC to procure a shared laboratory information management system from CliniSys. In December 2007, the two trusts decided to establish […]
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Bridge Forward, IMS Maxims and FileTek
Health integration technology specialist Bridge Forward has announced partnerships with clinical system suppliers IMS Maxims and FileTek UK, distributor of the Meditech system. The two deals build on the approximately 2,000 installed health sites in the UK using Bridge Forward technology. These include 200 hospitals, more than 1,000 GPs in Scotland and large numbers of […]
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Possible management buyout at Ascribe
Ascribe Plc, the AIM-listed healthcare IT services company, has today confirmed it is in preliminary talks with its executive directors regarding a possible management buyout. Ascribe, which provides a range of products and services including pharmacy, prescribing and GP systems, confirmed on Tuesday that it is “in preliminary discussions in relation to a potential management […]
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NHS Informatics Review says trusts need ‘interim’ systems
NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems as a result of the NHS Informatics Review.
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CSC markets Alert to the NHS
Computer Sciences Corporation has stepped up its marketing of a Portuguese electronic patient record (EPR) system called Alert to NHS trusts in the North Midlands and East of England. CSC is understood to have invested technical resources in evaluating and testing the Alert EPR over the past six months. The move comes despite ongoing delays […]
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