Milton Keynes’ CRS caused ‘near melt down’
The deployment of a national programme care records system at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust “developed into an untenable situation which resulted in near melt down of the organisation.”
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European judgement casts doubts on NHS CRS consent
A GP campaigning against the consent model for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) claims a European Court of Human Rights judgement reinforces his view that the NHS database is unlawful. In a judgement published last week the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a nurse in Finland had her right to privacy breached. […]
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European Court fines Finland for data breach
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen’s personal data, by not adequately securing and protecting a patient’s confidential record. The case could prove significant by creating a legal precedent, based on the European Convention on Human Rights, linking data security […]
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Royal Free flags training issues
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has rebutted local newspaper coverage claiming that it has suffered a "month of computer chaos." The trust admits there has been some issues since it went live with the London Cluster Release 1 version of Cerner Millennium. However, it says these were not unexpected and staff are already seeing […]
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St Mary’s delays go-live of CRS
The deployment of a London Cluster Release 1 Care Records System at the St Mary’s campus of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been delayed by a month due to “significant uncertainties.” The hospital was due to go live on 14 July with the Cerner Millennium system, but opted to defer deployment to the end […]
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Bath ends planned Fujitsu deployment
Bath’s Royal United Hospital NHS Trust has terminated the planned implementation of a Cerner Millennium care record system that was to have been supplied by Fujitsu. On 26 June, E-health Insider reported that the trust had delayed a planned 12 July implementation, because of the uncertainty created by Fujitsu’s departure as the National Programme for […]
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DH group to look at wider NHS CRS access
The Department of Health has convened a group to look at widening access to the NHS Care Records Service including representatives from patients, nurses and pharmacists, according to Prof Michael Thick, Connecting for Health’s chief clinical officer. Prof Thick told last week’s Pharmaceutical Journal that the representative group was made up of various parties with […]
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Access to NHS care records may be widened
The Department of Health is to review extending access to the NHS Care Records Service to non-NHS staff, and bodies including private sector organisations.
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CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts
The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen within the government’s two week deadline.
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CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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