DH consults on child Information Sharing Index
The government has launched a consultation on regulations for its proposed electronic database of children aged 0 to 18. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) aims to set up an Information Sharing Index by 2008 with a list of information on every child in England covering the name, address, gender and date of birth […]
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Child index could make youngsters anxious
The Children’s Commissioner says the government’s plans to create a national database of every child in England could create anxiety and arouse suspicion among young people, according to its latest research. The Office of the Children’s Commissioner commissioned children’s charity the NSPCC to conduct research among young people about their views on the proposed database, […]
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TPP reaches 200 deployments under Accenture
A significant milestone has been reached in the deployment of National Programme for IT systems to GP practices in the North-east and Eastern clusters. Local service provider Accenture and systems supplier TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) announced this week that they had completed its two hundredth deployment of SystmOne GP. There are now 430 GPs live using […]
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Leicestershire PCTs saving approx £2m from clinical IT
Health software supplier Ethitec has calculated that the six primary care trusts in Leicestershire are making efficiency savings worth the equivalent of £2m a year through their use of its Tiara9 clinical information system for allied health professions. The savings are extrapolated from data taken from the clinical information system based on reduced numbers of […]
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Troubled child health system to be replaced
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) looks set to replace an interim child health information system deployed in London last year and has already halted plans to extend it to include a community module. It has also emerged in a leaked letter, seen by E-Health Insider Primary Care, that a review of the problematic system has revealed […]
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More problems with London child health software
The Health Protection Agency has strongly criticised the interim child health systems used by ten primary care trusts in London after a fall in immunisation rates of up to 19% by primary care trusts using the system. The HPA said eight out of ten PCTs using the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) supplied by the […]
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Ethitec extends community EPR for Leicester PCTs
Six primary care trusts in Leicestershire have begun work on implementing a community electronic patient record system for children’s systems supplied by Ethitec. The six PCTs will use the Ethitec Tiara9 EPR for child physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics and podiatry services, bringing these therapies onto the same multi-professional clinical record system that is already supporting […]
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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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Meet the suppliers: in4tek
E-Health Insider Primary Care talks to CEO Tom Nawojczyk about the progress and motivation of health and social care software provider In4tek.
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Enfield PCT back to paper after computer failure
A London PCT has had to switch off its computer system and start recording patients’ details with pen and paper while it waits for a replacement to be delivered by the NHS IT programme. Enfield Primary Care Trust has switched off its two ageing iSoft PiMS patient administration systems, after experiencing frequent problems and interruptions to the service — including outages […]
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