Kent and Medway trusts select McKesson child health
A consortium of acute and primary care trusts across Kent and Medway strategic health authority have selected McKesson’s CarePlus child health IT system to provide a new single shared solution. McKesson’s CarePlus system will provide the NHS organisations with one integrated database, shared central procedures for child healthcare delivery and new interfaces with community-based child […]
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Choose and Book fails on air
Enthusiasts and sceptics among the GP community had their say about Choose and Book on a BBC investigation of the national e-booking system last night and one user had the embarrassing experience of taking the presenter through a booking that failed. Dr Andrew Langton a GP in Avon who has carried on using Choose and […]
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London child health system led to vaccination problems
Problems with the introduction of a new child health information system, provided under NHS Connecting for Health to ten PCTs in North London and Essex, have created difficulties in identifying which infants and children are due for jabs, issuing vaccination calls and recording whether they have received them. According to a report in the Observer […]
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Choice proves tough for some practices in Cambridge
Two primary care trusts have told practices in need of hardware upgrades to their IT systems that they will need to move to the local service provider’s GP solution or live with “suboptimal performance” from existing GP systems. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs wrote to practices last week stating that the only option the […]
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Missing link
Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH will have to make for its success.
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’
A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS trusts working on paper for a week after a disaster was ‘not acceptable’. Sunil Patel, development director of Accenture, LSP for the North east and Eastern regions of England, was referring to the disaster at […]
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ePEX accredited for Choose and Book
Ascribe has announced that it has achieved Choose and Book accreditation for its ePEX patient administration system, which is installed in 25% of PCTs in the UK. The ePEX PAS has been designed with primary and community care in mind, with modules that support mental health, learning disabilities, child health and elderly services. The Choose […]
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Meet the suppliers: TPP
In the first article of a series, EHI Primary Care travels to Leeds to spend a day with TPP, the alternative primary care supplier for the North-east and Eastern cluster.
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Great Ormond Street implements electronic prescribing
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has begun implementation of JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System. The new EPMA system now provides clinicians at the trust with software for the electronic prescribing and administration of medicines on a nephrology ward, and work has now begun on introducing the system into other wards […]
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CfH approaches 2,000th deployment
Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of the beginning of September. The figure represents an increase of over 800 deployments since the beginning of August, reaching a grand total of 1,864. However, a closer reading of the figures reveals that almost all […]
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