Royal Free, London’s first to exit NPfIT
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has become the first Cerner Millennium trust in London to exit its National Programme for IT contract.
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NHS 24 delays £27m IT system
Scotland’s NHS 24 has delayed the deployment of its £27m patient contact and triage management system indefinitely, just weeks before going live with NHS 111.
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Community and mental health IT hots up
Community and mental health trusts in London and the South are “working like fury” to pick new suppliers and replace their RiO electronic patient record systems by October next year.
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Lewisham puts back Cerner go-live
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has delayed the go-live of Cerner Millennium at Queen Elizabeth Hospital due to problems transferring 18-week referral to treatment data to the new system.
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BT pursues £20m damages in Scotland
BT will pursue £20m in damages against NHS Scotland after losing its bid for a network contract worth £110m.
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Court lifts suspension on NHS Scotland
An Edinburgh court today lifted a suspension preventing NHS Scotland from awarding a contract for the Scottish Wide Area Network because of ongoing legal issues with BT.
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London trusts given PACS data support
London trusts due to exit picture archiving and communications systems contracts set up under the National Programme for IT may benefit from contract negotiations that are under way with their local service provider, BT.
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PODcasting
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust is at the forefront of Northern Ireland’s ambitious e-health plans. Lis Evenstad reports.
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NI trust is pleased with its PODs
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has opened two performance optimised data centres to run its IT operations and support its mobile working and virtual desktops strategies.
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Kingston ‘let down’ by BT
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust did not go-live with Cerner e-prescribing and clinical documentation last year after BT failed to deliver a “workable system” on time, trust board papers reveal.
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