Survey shows falling GP support for NPfIT
Support and enthusiasm for the National Programme for IT among GPs has fallen by more than 50% since the programme was launched five years ago according to a survey of more than 1,000 doctors commissioned by EHI Primary Care. The latest of eight surveys on NPfIT conducted by the healthcare online research organisation Medix showed […]
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Survey shows waning support for NPfIT
Waning enthusiasm from doctors for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is recorded in a Medix survey of medical opinion prepared for E-Health Insider and other media. Only 30% of GP respondents say the programme is an important priority, compared to an all-time high of 70% in a similar survey in November 2004. A parallel […]
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Queen Mary’s Sidcup goes live with Cerner
Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust has become the second NHS trust in London to go live with a Cerner Millennium patient administration system (PAS) supplied by BT under the NHS IT Programme. The trust went live with the new system over 28 October and 29 October, becoming the third implementation of a PAS by BT […]
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Lorenzo plan unlikely before year end
Alternative delivery plans – codenamed Penfield – developed by Computer Sciences Corporation for delivery of the next generation Lorenzo clinical software for three-fifths of the English NHS are unlikely to be completed before the end of the year. One of the NHS chief information officers taking a lead on the Lorenzo Penfield plan has told […]
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Trust business continuity solution launched
A business continuity solution to help trusts ensure that critical management reports are not interrupted by migrations from legacy systems to new NHS systems has been launched by data management specialist, Stalis. According to the company, trusts have found that business continuity is a risk as they change systems in the move towards the new […]
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PACS – worth the hype?
‘Your doctor will never look at you in the same way again’ – Joe Fernandez asks one radiologist at St Peter’s Hospital Chertsey what his experiences are digital x-rays have been.
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South edges towards ‘best of breed’ approach
The re-negotiation of the NHS IT Programme contract between Fujitsu and the NHS in the South of England appears to be heading towards a best of breed approach.
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CRS delayed MRSA patients being isolated
Problems with the Care Records System installed at Buckingham Hospitals NHS Trust resulted in delays to potentially infectious patients with MRSA not being isolated. The problem arose as after the new system was turned on historic infection control alerts then had to be manually entered onto the system in the six weeks following go-live The […]
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NHS trusts in Sussex get new IT helpdesk
NHS staff from eleven trusts in Sussex can now get instant technical support from Sussex Health Informatics Service, after it achieved full Connecting for Health accreditation for its contact centre support desk. The accreditation means that users of NHS IT systems in the Sussex region can call a local helpdesk for free, providing them with an […]
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Everything you know is wrong
In a personal account of implementing NPfIT systems, Jeff Jacklin, former head of IT at Milton Keynes hospital explains the first lesson of working with NPfIT: forget everything you’ve learnt to date.
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