Southern community procurement approved
Funding for an IT system procurement for child and community trusts in the South has been approved by the Cabinet Office.
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Birmingham looks for community system
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust is hoping to procure an electronic patient record, according to a tender notice.
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Southern community procurement ‘close’
A new IT systems procurement for child and community trusts in the South is in the final stages of government approval and will be centrally funded, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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ASCC community procurement restarts
The Treasury has given the go-ahead for the Department of Health to restart the procurement of community and child health systems in the South of England.
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London completes move to RiO 5.4
All 36 of the community and mental health trusts in London that opted to take the RiO electronic patient record have been upgraded to the latest version by local service provider BT.
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DH publishes model for community IT
The Department of Health is urging community services to evaluate their information systems and set priorities for the future using its newly-published community information model. The model forms part of a report, Transforming Community Services: Improving Information for Stakeholders, produced by a working group of strategic health authorities and primary care trusts set up following […]
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Darling targets efficiency, pay and tax
The Chancellor has slightly shifted the focus of this year’s Pre-Budget Report from the urgent need to make public sector efficiency savings to implementing pay freezes and increasing taxes.
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Blackpool gets ‘Darzi’ style PACS
NHS Blackpool has implemented a new Agfa PACS system that enable staff working at the town’s state of the art new polyclinic to access and share diagnostic image records with staff at the local hospital trust. Implemented as an extension of Blackpool, Flyde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s existing Agfa Impax PACS, the new […]
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Siemens wins west London LAN deal
NHS Kensington and Chelsea has signed a contract with Siemens Enterprise Communications for a single voice and secure data network. The trust will roll-out Siemens’ OpenScape Voice platform and secure Enterasys Data Local Area Network (LAN) networking equipment at the beginning of 2010 as part of a single service agreement. When the implementation is complete, […]
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London SCR roll out announced
The Department of Health has announced that the Summary Care Record is to be rolled out across London from this week.
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