Millennium fails again across Southern England
Many NHS staff in the south were left unable to use the Cerner Millennium care record system last Wednesday morning, after the Fujitsu-provided system failed across the region for the second time in a month. As a result of problems with the centrally hosted system, that lasted an entire Wednesday morning, some staff had to […]
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Southern trusts hit by CRS failure
The Millennium NHS Care Records System application, meant to become the critical clinical system used by NHS staff across Southern England, went down and stayed down for an hour Thursday morning, 24 April in three out of the eight trusts where it has been installed. Though currently limited to patient administration tasks later versions of […]
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Worthing still has ‘data quality issues’
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS trust is continuing to experience problems of data quality and generating statutory reports seven months after going live with a new Care Records System (CRS) supplied by Cerner and installed by Fujitsu. Worthing Hospital initially experienced ‘inflated’ waiting lists and problems with data quality following its switch to Cerner Millennium […]
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Barts and The London deny CRS crash report
Barts and The London NHS Trust has denied reports in a tabloid newspaper alleging their new Cerner Millennium system crashed on its first day of operation. The project is the largest hospital go-live yet under the £12.4bn NHS IT programme. The Sun newspaper yesterday reported the new “computer scheme crashed on launch day…forcing doctors at […]
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Barts and The London switches on Millennium
Barts and the London NHS Trust has become the third NHS trust in London to go live with a Cerner Millennium Care Record System (CRS) supplied by BT under the £12.4bn NHS IT Programme. The trust switched on the new system over the weekend, going live in A&E, inpatients and outpatients, with functionality including case […]
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Pharmacists may get access to patient care records
The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved. The news comes despite BMA concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of extending access to an additional professional group working in the commercial sector. The newly-published white paper on community pharmacy, Pharmacy in England: […]
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CfH director says Lorenzo will arrive in summer
Richard Jeavons is confident the next generation Lorenzo software from iSoft will be ready for delivery to the first NHS sites within the ‘period’ of the summer.
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Barts put back Millennium go live
The date for the go-live of Cerner Millennium at Barts and the London NHS Trust (BLT), seen by many as the acid test of BT’s ability to deliver Cerner into a complex London teaching hospital , has been delayed. E-Health Insider has learned the go-live has been put back from the weekend of 8-9 March […]
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A year in review: LSPs in 2007
EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service providers: Fujitsu, CSC and BT.
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Tavistock and Portman extend CareNotes use
Staff at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust are extending the use of their CareNotes patient care record system to make use of its clinical functionality. CareNotes CRS is an electronic health care record solution designed by Strand technology that aids mental health trust in caring for clients from initial contact to discharge. Tavistock […]
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