Audit Office report on CfH delayed again
Public spending watchdog the National Audit Office has once again delayed the publication of its report into the £6.2 billion National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider has learned that the eagerly awaited report, originally due to be published in July 2005, is now not expected to be released until "summer 2006" at the earliest, a […]
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US speakers for first CfH nursing conference
US nursing experience of using clinical IT systems will be shared at Connecting for Health’s first conference for nurses and midwives in March. Victoria Bradley and Carol Steltenkamp of the University of Kentucky Medical School has been invited to speak at the conference which will be opened by England’s chief nursing officer (CNO). CfH say […]
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CfH due for restructuring in DH shuffle
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has signalled that it will undergo restructuring later this year as part of a wider reorganisation in the Department of Health. An announcement from CfH, which is currently designated as an agency of the Department of Health, says that the precise nature of the organisation and of the associated governance […]
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GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’
The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up onto the NHS summary care record if patients have opted in to have their details shared. The agreed recommendation states "That the GPC insists that clinical data should not be uploaded to the Summary care […]
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More focus on research needed in NPfIT, says report
Leading academic medical researchers say that the Care Record Guarantee currently makes commitments that, if strictly interpreted would prevent a significant number of research projects from using Connecting for Health data. Their comments, which were made in a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences released last week, have stirred controversy with the assertion that medical advances […]
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Pharmacists to get access to EPS but not CRS
Pharmacists are to be registered for access to the NHS spine to enable electronic transmission of prescriptions but will be excluded from access to the NHS Care Records Service for the time being, latest guidance reveals. The guidance sent out to primary care trusts by the Department of Health and NHS Connecting for Health states […]
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NHS CfH says spine now fixed
NHS Connecting for Health, the DH agency responsible for delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT, has issued a briefing note stating that service levels have been restored to normal following service reliability and availability problems with the NHS spine over recent weeks. According to CfH briefing note a normal service has been operating […]
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CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS
New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) programme in the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS, E-Health Insider has learned. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the […]
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Patient data errors created by iSoft’s iPM system
A flaw has been identified in the iSoft iPM patient administration system being provided as the standard solution to NHS trusts in the North West and West Midlands that can corrupt patient data creating suspected clinical risks to patients. Under certain circumstances the iPM patient administration system has been found to both incorrectly display patient […]
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CfH keeps fingers crossed on spine
Despite assurances from NHS Connecting for Health last week that the problems with the Spine over the past two weeks have been resolved, guidance issued yesterday indicates the situation remains somewhat less certain. A 4 January briefing issued by the CfH Choose and Book team on the problems with Choose and Book, stemming from technical problems […]
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