Granger sets November deadline for BT in London
BT has been warned by NHS IT boss Richard Granger that they must hit a 28 November deadline to switch on a Patient Administration System at Queen Mary and Sidcup NHS Trust or risk incurring penalties. The company confirmed that it is up to a year behind schedule on its £996m computer network-services contract with […]
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Investment in clinical coding now critical
NHS trusts must urgently invest in the financial and performance management and supporting information systems, the Audit Commission says in its new report on the early lessons from Payment by Results (PbR). The report, ‘Early lessons from payment by results’, says it is vital that trusts have good quality information systems and data. "Good information systems […]
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CfH nursing clinical lead to quit for Scotland
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that its national clinical lead for nursing, Heather Tierney-Moore, is to leave her post for a new job in Scotland. Tierney-Moore, who is also chief nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has been appointed director of nursing at NHS Lothian and will take up her post in the […]
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CfH could face a £10 billion funding gap
A new consultation paper produced by an influential health computing industry group has raised concerns about the medium-term funding of the NHS National Programme for IT, suggesting that there may be a funding gap of up to £10 billion. "It is felt that there is a medium-term funding gap estimated at over £10 billion pounds […]
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Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006
Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August 2006 as part of a new evolutionary ‘pilot’, intended to test the basic concepts around shared summary care records. The strategy, set out in a consultative document published today, indicates a far more gradual approach […]
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CfH begins NHS information blitz
A marathon campaign to tell the nation about the NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS) gets underway today with a leaflet blitz on NHS staff. The 12 page leaflet, which is accompanied by a poster, gives an overview of how the programme will work and its impact on various aspects of modern care delivery. A […]
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Lab system supplier gets N3 nod
Labs system software supplier Technidata UK has announced that it has become among the first independent software suppliers to be given the right for their products to connect to N3, the new NHS network being installed under the National Programme for IT. Paul McKenna, implementation and training manager at Technidata UK, told E-Health Insider […]
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GP system choice still under negotiation with LSPs
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) is unable to provide a firm date on when arrangements will be finalised to provide GPs with choice on their practice software. New arrangements for delivering GP choice were first promised by CfH in March, following a protest campaign by GPs unhappy at the lack of system choice that had […]
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GP2GP goes live
A working version of the long-awaited GP2GP transfer system was demonstrated at the BCS’s Primary Health Care Specialist Group Conference last week. EHI Primary Care was there.
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Review of Connecting for Health imminent
Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer of NHS Connecting for Health has revealed that a review of the NHS National Programme for IT is to be carried out to bring it up to date with NHS policy developments and the impact of new technologies. Hextall said that it was five years since the original policy Information […]
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