Family heartbreak inspires career change for NHS Digital data director
The loss of his daughter Scarlett just days before her due date led Daniel Ray to change his career to give back to the hospital that cared for his family.
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UK’s first maternity record system launched in Birmingham
The single maternity record will enable clinical information to be shared between four hospitals in the region, improving quality of care for patients.
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Birmingham Women’s gets Lorenzo go-ahead
Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has had its business case to deploy the advanced bed management functionality of Lorenzo approved by the CSC LSP Programme Board.
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DH: CSC ‘unlikely’ to hit new deadline
CSC is unlikely to deliver on the latest remedial plan that is supposed to show how it will complete its delivery of the latest version of Lorenzo to four milestone sites in the North, Midlands and East of England.
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Birmingham Women’s to switch on Lorenzo
Birmingham Women’s is set to become the third ‘early adopter’ go live with the Lorenzo 1.9 care records service hospital information system. The trust took a decision on Friday to proceed with an initial go live by Monday.
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Pennine on brink of dropping Lorenzo
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust may be on the brink of abandoning its Lorenzo implementation following continuing concerns and difficulties around implementing the system, E-Health Insider has learned.
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Next Lorenzo go-lives put back
Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust will not be going live with Lorenzo Care Management next week, and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust is rescheduling its go-live of Lorenzo Emergency Care.
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Three more Lorenzos by autumn
Three more trusts will go-live with Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 over late summer and early autumn, the Department of Health has told E-Health Insider.
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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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Morecambe Bay goes live with PAS from CSC
Three sites in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have gone live with an iSoft patient administration system (PAS) that includes, for the first time, the A&E administration module from iSoft’s Lorenzo reference solution. CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands, installed the system in a ‘big bang’ implementation, […]
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