NHS Fife use Siemens to integrate systems
NHS Fife is extending the scope of its Oasis patient administration system to include community and mental health services.
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CfH underspent by £828m over three years
Delays in implementations and delivery of systems under the National Programme for IT over the last three years means that Connecting for Health has underspent by £828m on its original capital and revenue budgets, health minister Ben Bradshaw has revealed. The majority of the underspend occurred in the last financial year, when CfH spent just […]
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NHS leading public sector on shared services
A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared services in the public sector, even though only a fifth of NHS trusts have widely adopted the financial concept. The Cabinet Office is currently pushing for the adoption of shared services across government to deliver […]
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NHS Direct on a mission to explain
Matt Tee has been CEO of NHS Direct for the past four months, he told us of his plans for the organisation.
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Security clampdown on NSTS batch deliveries
A clampdown on deliveries of unencrypted data sent by regular mail services has been announced by the NHS Strategic Tracing Service (NSTS). The action announced by Connecting for Health, which is responsible for the NSTS, follows the now-notorious incident in which 25m personal records were lost in transit between HM Revenue and Customs and the […]
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Revenue blunder is a lesson for public bodies
The Information Commissioner has highlighted the importance of tight security and data protection in public sector bodies, following the security lapse at HM Revenue and Customs (HRMC) leading to the disappearance of discs containing the personal data of 25m people. Last night the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, confirmed that two computer discs holding the personal details […]
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Government rejects consent call for SUS use
The government has rejected calls from the Commons Health Select Committee to apply consent to the use of Secondary Uses Service data for research purposes, including information in ‘sealed envelopes’. In its official response to the committee’s report on the Electronic Patient Record the government says that the design of the Secondary Uses Services (SUS) […]
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Info sharing for emergencies under test
Software that will allow the police and emergency services to share and update incident information more effectively is being developed by the University of Hertfordshire and Extent Software. The software, named Collaborator, will attempt to offer instant cross-agency alerts regardless of individual IT systems, allowing all services at the scene of an incident to share information […]
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Worthing says PAS teething problems over
Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust says it has resolved initial teething problems of its new Cerner Millennium patient administration system, provided by local service provider Fujitsu. The go-live has described by sources close to the trust as the best implementation of Cerner Millennium under the NHS IT project to date, but one which still requires extensive […]
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SUS blasted as ‘not fit for purpose’
The Secondary Uses Service (SUS) is not fit for purpose and is failing to provide GP practices and PCTs with the information they need for practice based commissioning (PBC), according to the NHS Alliance. The criticism of SUS follows the results of the latest quarterly survey of PBC published by the Department of Health last […]
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