Suspended Fujitsu exec tells MPs NPfIT needs leadership
The senior manager at Fujitsu who said the National Programme for IT was in danger of delivering “a camel, and not the racehorse that we might try to produce”, has told a parliamentary committee that this can only be solved with more ‘visionary and proactive leadership from the NHS.’ Andrew Rollerson, who was credited as […]
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Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’
Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final stages of being drawn up by Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider understands that the supplier catalogue plans being drawn up may cover […]
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Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner
Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with a Cerner patient administration system supplied by local service provider Fujitsu as part of the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. In addition to the acute trust the system has gone live into community hospitals […]
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New Cerner deployment goes live in Hampshire
Another health community within the Southern Cluster has gone live with Cerner’s Milllennium patient administration system, delivered by local service provider, Fujitsu as part of the NHS IT programme. The Cerner system was deployed into three trusts, including one acute trust, as part of the implementation into what Fujitsu terms the ‘Hampshire Deployment Family’. The trusts […]
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Software helps Bucks cope with rising support calls
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented a new support call service to meet increased demand following the deployment of its new Cerner Millennium patient administration system last September and a general increase in computer use. The software from Hornbill Systems’ Supportworks Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) provides an integrated platform for automating and managing request […]
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns
A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting difficulties with the system "could have an impact on all remaining Cluster R0 go-live dates". The trust board paper seen by EHI warns that should delays to the availability of a system that meets requirements […]
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Potential purchase of iSoft said to be nearing end-game
Newspaper reports today say that troubled software supplier iSoft is in talks with three final-stage bidders, naming US healthcare firms Cerner and McKesson, together with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners. According to the report in The Times discussions are at a late stage for the sale of the health software firm, which is at the […]
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Cerner problems ‘reported before NOC go-live’
A problem with appointment bookings that hit Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital when it went live with its new Cerner system had been reported previously by a London hospital, according to a television report. The problem resulted in some patients not receiving appointments and others presenting when the hospital was not expecting them. It also resulted in […]
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More delays likely in PAS rollout, says Granger
A combination of the NHS’s financial troubles and problems with software, means that the installation of new patient administration systems in hospitals is likely to be further delayed, Connecting for Health chief executive, Richard Granger says in an interview. He admits that London’s local service provider, BT, is having difficulties finding any hospital in the […]
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Southern SHAs to pilot greater local ownership of NPfIT
The three strategic health authorities in the south of England are piloting a new model of governance for the National Programme for IT that will shift responsibilities from NHS Connecting for Health at the centre to the local NHS. The move is partly as a result of recommendations from the National Audit Office earlier this […]
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