Primary care inspires review
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr dissects the NHS IT review and identifies the wellspring of ideas that shaped it.
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Renegotiating LSP deals may prove costly
A senior industry analyst has compared the potential cost of renegotiating the NHS’s local service provider contracts, worth £4 billion, to “bailing out the banks”. With the addition of BT’s National Application Service Provider deal for the NHS Spine the total value of contracts to be renegotiated rises to £5 billion. Mike Davis, senior analyst at […]
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals
The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT and Computer Sciences Corporation in order to revamp NHS IT.
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT
The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour’s central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited patient record and clinical systems.
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Dartford uses Itanium as bridge to EPR
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is taking forward plans for an electronic patient record system by putting a new hardware platform under the latest version of iSoft’s PatientCentre patient administration system.
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Ofcom launches 111 consultation
Ofcom has launched a consultation on the use of a national 111 non-emergency number for healthcare. Following the consultation, the Department of Health plans to pilot the new number and to roll the service out across England. Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, will run the consultation from today, looking at use […]
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Tower Hamlets drops RiO for EMIS Web
A London primary care trust has opted out of NHS Connecting for Health plans to install the community and child health system RiO, deciding instead to use EMIS Web across primary and community care. The move by NHS Tower Hamlets means the PCT is breaking away from the London Programme for IT’s ‘best of breed’ solution for […]
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World wide EMIS Web
EMIS is not backward about coming forward with its next generation system, EMIS Web. Fiona Barr reports.
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National prison contract for TPP
The Department of Health has announced that TPP’s SystmOne Prison has been selected as the first national clinical IT system for prisons. The decision, previewed in EHI Primary Care last month, means primary care trusts now have until the end of December 2010 to deploy the system across all prisons in England. The DH said […]
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Southern NHS trusts get systems of choice
NHS trusts in the South of England are to be offered a choice of systems and to have them funded as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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