Review of Connecting for Health imminent
Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer of NHS Connecting for Health has revealed that a review of the NHS National Programme for IT is to be carried out to bring it up to date with NHS policy developments and the impact of new technologies. Hextall said that it was five years since the original policy Information […]
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London trusts go for IP telephony
Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four NHS trusts in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington. The contracts cover the Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT), Islington PCT and Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust – all served by […]
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Fujitsu signs with Cerner for South
Fujitsu Services has officially awarded a contract to Cerner Ltd in order to provide its Millennium clinical software to NHS organisations across the South of England under the NHS National Programme for IT. The contract, signed on Friday, 2 September, covers using Cerner’s Millennium software for the NHS Care Records Service in the Southern Cluster. […]
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GP negotiators considering extra C+B incentives
GP representatives and the health department’s pay negotiators are looking at ways that GPs can be paid through the GMS contract for taking on Choose and Book. The government’s key NHS policy on patient choice is dependent on the widespread uptake of Choose and Book but so far very few GPs have been prepared to […]
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QoF results publication reveals quality of care
Practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcome Framework for England are being published today although technical problems have delayed the display of information. The results show that the average score for practices in England last year was 958.7 out of a possible 1050. The maximum score of 1,050 points was achieved by 222 practices […]
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iSoft chosen as partner by SingHealth
iSoft has announced that it has been chosen as a partner by SingHealth to provide health IT solutions to help deliver healthcare reform in Singapore. The decision follows SingHealth’s award of a contract earlier this year for iSoft to deliver its Lorenzo clinical system. The new agreement will create a development partnership between between iSoft […]
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PCT IT service agreement still missing
A service level agreement to guarantee the level of IT service practices should receive from primary care trusts under the new GMS contract has still to be published, almost 18 months after the new contract has taken effect. GP representatives are blaming the delay on the Department of Health and have written to the department […]
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NHS 24 buys knowledge management system
Information and knowledge management consultancy LSC Group is to provide a knowledge management system including geographic information system for NHS 24, the nurse-led telephone advice, assessment and referral service for Scotland. Using the new GIS system NHS 24 staff will be able to better direct staff to the most appropriate location for care and treatment. […]
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GP2GP record transfers struggling on attachments
GP2GP record transfer is under threat because the NHS spine may be unable to cope with the size and number of attachments to GP records, according to GP representatives. It appears that the spine is unable to handle the large number of attachments – often vital documents like scanned hospital referral letters – which many […]
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Software for Scottish minor ailments service launched
Software to support the first phase of Scotland’s e-pharmacy plans has begun to be used by a pharmacy to run its minor ailments service. Cegedim Rx is the first of the pharmacy system suppliers to release electronic minor ailments service (e-MAS) software which it is planned will eventually be used by all pharmacies across Scotland. […]
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