Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells expand patient flow platform
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is enhancing strategic capacity planning by expanding its care co-ordination centre to four Kent community hospitals.
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Somerset introduces web-based EPR viewer across all clinical services
A web viewer that allows all clinicians sight of patient records created in primary care is being rolled out across Somerset following a successful pilot.
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Braintree Community Hospital picks TPP
Braintree Community Hospital is to go live with TPP’s Community Hospital module when it opens for business this spring, TPP has announced. The new community hospital, run by a partnership between NHS and private providers operating as Braintree Clinical Services, will become the seventh community hospital to take TPP’s Community Hospital module following its launch […]
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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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Wiltshire Health signs deal with System C
System C has signed a five-year contract with a consortium of GPs in Wiltshire providing services in the community that were traditionally delivered in the acute sector. The new consortium is called Wilcare Health Ltd, and is one of the new forms of primary care organisation being promoted by the government. Wilcare is in partnership with […]
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Heart check-ups by phone offered over Christmas
Over 100 GP practices in the North West of England will be offering patients heart check-ups over the phone during the Christmas holiday period. People living in Greater Manchester who experience cardiac symptoms over the holiday season will be able to go along to their local practice or walk-in centre and be tested on the […]
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CSC deploys first community PAS in Eastern cluster
Cambridgeshire PCT has become the first trust to receive an iSoft Community iPM system from Computer Sciences Corporation in the Eastern region of the NHS, formerly overseen by Accenture. The system went live on 30 March in three sites, the Princess of Wales Hospital, Arthur Rank House and Brookfields Hospital, replacing their previous community system, […]
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