Benenden to deploy Oasis EPR
Private healthcare group, the Benenden Hospital Trust has signed a five year contract with Oasis Medical Solutions, to implement the Oasis patient administration system. Benenden, whose main hospital is in Cranbrook, Kent, has been using a legacy PAS for the last ten years, but, due to an increase in NHS business as part of the […]
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Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments
NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become a fact of life in the NHS. Answering MPs’ questions about Choose and Book use at the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee hearing on the NHS IT programme, Nicholson said: “Utilisation of the system […]
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Primary care following Fujitsu
Following the exit of Fujitsu from the NHS IT programme in the South of England, Fiona Barr explores what the implications are for primary care.
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Fujitsu’s exit may hasten systems choice
Long term system choice for GPs could have moved a step nearer with the departure of local service provider (LSP) Fujitsu, according to primary care IT representatives. Last week Connecting for Heath terminated Fujitsu’s £896m contract as LSP for the South, leaving question marks over who might take over and how it will affect development […]
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Spine problems force trusts to switch off CRS
Trusts across England were forced to switch off their connection to the Personal Demographics Service, after a weekend upgrade led to the system suffering from ‘intermittent problems’ leading some to stop using their electronic record systems. The weekend upgrade, called Spine release 2008-A, was a major upgrade to the Spine PDS service. The PDS is […]
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Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’
Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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Seetec withdraws from GPSoC
Seetec has announced it is to withdraw from the GP Systems of Choice programme, effective from 30 November, and quit the primary care market. The company said it made the difficult decision following a decline in demand for its primary care system, GP Enterprise. Seetec has been a supplier to the NHS primary care market […]
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NHS Direct Online to be moved to Choices
Parts of NHS Direct Online, the highly successful and popular web-based patient advice and information service, look set to be transferred to rival NHS Choices. The planned move is not thought to impact NHS Direct’s core nurse-led national telephone advice service, which handles over 8 million calls a year. NHS Choices, the patient information portal run […]
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Choose and Book release 4 relaunched
The latest version of Choose and Book to enable free choice at referral has been relaunched after Connecting for Health (CfH) had to delay launch of the update earlier this month. CfH pulled the deployment of release 4.0 of Choose and Book more than three weeks ago after it emerged that more than 300 patients […]
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Choose and Book bill reaches £100m
The government’s e-booking service Choose and Book has cost almost £100m so far, the Department of Health has revealed. In an answer to a parliamentary question health minister Ben Bradshaw said that total costs to date for the development, delivery and maintenance of the Choose and Book IT system total £98.9m. The health minister said […]
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