Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out
Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management system into 16 hospitals in Northern Ireland. As part of the project Newgate have begun work on piloting their theatre electronic patient record (EPR) software, a system called Nexus, at the Belfast City Hospital. The […]
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DH denies report that NPfIT is to be shelved
Suggestions in a weekend newspaper that the NHS is to shelve the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) have been strongly denied by the Department of Health (DH) today. According to the News of the World, NHS chiefs have agreed to shelve the programme after admitting it was an expensive failure. The report claims: “Hospitals have […]
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Fujitsu picks McKesson for Child Health
McKesson has been selected by Fujitsu to provide its CarePlus child health software to NHS trusts across the South of England under the NHS IT modernisation programme. Fujitsu is the prime contractor – or local service provider (LSP) – for the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the South, responsible for upgrading NHS […]
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Cancer researchers link by video
Joe Fernandez looks at how the CancerGrid project is using video conferencing technology to link researchers from Belfast to Cambridge.
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Surrey and Sussex go live with Millennium
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has become the latest trust in the Southern cluster to go-live with Cerner’s Millennium Release 0 patient administration system, delivered by local service provider Fujitsu. The trust went live with the system trust-wide on the evening of Friday 20 April, at the same time as local service provider Computer Sciences […]
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IT delays contribute to NHS trust deficits
Delays in implementing the National Programme for IT are listed by the influential Commons public accounts committee today as a factor leading to some NHS trusts plunging into the red. The PAC’s inquiry into financial management in the NHS found that in 2005/06 14 trusts asked the Department of Health for money to cover “costs incurred as a result […]
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E-learning helps NHS managers understand finance
New e-learning modules which help managers to understand NHS finance have been developed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). The modules were written and produced by communication and training specialists, Information Transfer, to help NHS staff understand the requirements of the new Patient Choice and Payment by Results schemes. An HFMA spokesperson told E-Health […]
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Scotland’s NHS in the dark on IM&T spend
The NHS in Scotland does not know exactly how much it spends on IM&T overall, according to a major report from public spending watchdog Audit Scotland. In a key recommendation, the report says the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) needs to improve the way it funds IM&T programmes in future by developing business cases, and […]
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BT appoints NHS veteran as London CEO
Paul White, chief executive of Barts and the London NHS Trust is to join BT as chief executive of its severly delayed London NHS IT programme. He will take up the post in the New Year. White who has been CEO of Barts and the London for five years serves on a number of national […]
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NPfIT scrutinised by Public Accounts Committee
The Public Accounts Committee hearing into the NHS National Programme for IT yesterday heard that the £12.4bn programme is largely on track, apart from its central component, the NHS Care Records Service, which is intended to deliver rich local clinical systems and a national database of summary records. Just 12 acute trusts have so far received […]
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