Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has disbanded its Care Records System team and will implement a system from Ascribe instead. Following Fujitsu’s exit from the National Programme for IT, the trust decided to use its contingency plans to consolidate all of its existing systems into a single system known as ePEX […]
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BT in talks to take over Cerner trusts in south
BT has confirmed it is in talks to take over responsibility for trusts in the south with Cerner Millennium
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Royal Free go-live with Millennium R1 CRS
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go-live with a Cerner Millennium Release 1 Care Records System. The trust went live with the new Patient Administration System, delivered by local service provider BT, over the weekend, and will be using it for accident and emergency, order communications, inpatient, maternity, […]
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Winchester has four-day Millennium failure
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, has in the past week suffered a four day problem with its Cerner Millennium Care Records System (CRS) that left it unavailable to some users for up to four days. The problems began on Thursday, 5 June, and though largely resolved by Sunday were not fully fixed until Monday, […]
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Negotiations over £143m Fujitsu advance continue
Questions about advance payments made to Fujitsu by NHS Connecting for Health are still to be resolved, as discussions on contract termination continue between the two parties. Figures submitted to the National Audit Office on 31 March showed that Fujitsu received £370m out of £1.3billion of advance payments from CfH, but were to repay £143m. […]
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Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London
Kevin Jarrold, NHS London’s chief information officer and the London Programme for IT’s regional implementation director, has pledged to have installed 15 acute care records systems by the end of the current financial year. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo, Jarrold said that after a “patchy” start for LPfIT in delivering core systems to acute […]
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Royal Berkshire ‘may walk’ from NHS IT programme
The chairman of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has said the trust “may walk” from the NHS IT Programme, to ensure it gets the IT systems required. Speaking last Thursday, the day after Fujitsu had its £1.1 billion NHS IT contract for the South terminated, Colin MacLean the chairman of Royal Berks said it […]
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Spine problems force trusts to switch off CRS
Trusts across England were forced to switch off their connection to the Personal Demographics Service, after a weekend upgrade led to the system suffering from ‘intermittent problems’ leading some to stop using their electronic record systems. The weekend upgrade, called Spine release 2008-A, was a major upgrade to the Spine PDS service. The PDS is […]
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Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’
Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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