ACS raises £55m war chest
Wandsworth abandons Cerner plans
NHS Wandsworth has abandoned plans to install Cerner Millennium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. The primary care trust said the change to its IT plans was due to repeated delays and concerns about security as well as the unsuitability of Millennium for federated Polyclinic models […]
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Three more early adopters for Lorenzo
E-Health Insider has identified an NHS acute trust, a primary care trust and a mental health services trust as the next adopters of Lorenzo regional care.
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RiO upgrades suspended in London
Moves to upgrade NHS organisations in London to the latest NHS Spine-connected version of the RiO community and mental health system have been suspended after a series of performance problems.
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BT Global Services takes £1.5bn hit
BT has said it will cut another 15,000 jobs this year, equivalent to 10% of its UK workforce, and reported an annual loss of £134m.
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BT advanced payments to be deducted
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has said that all of the £92.8m advanced payment made to BT for work in the South will be deducted from the amount paid upon delivery of the systems it is contracted to provide. In a parliamentary written answer, dated 7 May, Bradshaw said all of the sum will be deducted […]
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IT should make me more money
In his latest column GP Dr Neil Paul argues that general practice needs some more business-based IT solutions.
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Confed calls for community IT
Community services lag behind much of the rest of the NHS on IT investment, according to the NHS Confederation’s Primary Care Trust Network. The PCT Network, which represents the majority of PCTs in England, is calling for lack of IT investment to be corrected in a report published this week. The report, The Future for […]
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ACS buys hosting and outsourcing firm
Advanced Computer Software, the owners of out of-hours software provider Adastra, has bought a hosting and outsourcing firm to accelerate its roll-out of hosted software services.
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TPP named as CSC strategic solution
Primary care software supplier TPP has announced that it has signed an agreement with local service provider CSC, which makes SystmOne the strategic solution in the North, Midlands and East of England.
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