‘Widespread concerns’ about NPfIT penalties
In a new survey NHS foundation trusts have reported ‘widespread concerns’ about the limited functionality of key systems from the NHS National Programme for IT. Some foundation trusts (FTs) that have sought to delay taking systems until problems are fixed say they have been told to expect fines running into many millions of pounds. The FTs […]
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It’s all about access
David Baker, MD of Clinical Solutions, tells Jon Hoeksma, that his company’s strategy is based on providing the means to access to health services, no matter the point of contact or circumstances.
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Surrey and Sussex becomes sixth Millennium site in South
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, the latest trust to go-live with Cerner’s Millennium R0 patient administration system (PAS) delivered by local service provider Fujitsu. The trust has successfully completed their 45 day implementation programme, but have opted not to deploy order comms functionality yet. The trust, which went live on 20 April, delayed deployment of […]
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Millennium R0 not capturing 18 week referrals data
NHS trusts in the South of England using Cerner Millennium Release 0 are not yet able to electronically capture 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) data, one of the government’s key objectives for the NHS. Trusts have been required to report on RTT times since January, with the target to be achieved for all 18-week […]
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Trusts feel knock on effects of Millennium delays
Ongoing delays in implementations of Release 0 of the Cerner Millennium Care Record Service (CRS) in the south of England are having a knock effect, pushing back deployment dates for trusts awaiting Release 1 of the software. As a result several hospital trusts in the South currently have no firm implementation date for implementation, while […]
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GP representatives to call for public enquiry on CRS
GPs representatives are to hear calls for a public inquiry into the cost of the NHS Care Records Service (CRS) at the national local medical committees’ (LMCs) conference next week. Doctors will also consider a call for Choose and Book to be suspended. A priority motion at the LMCs conference demands that a public inquiry […]
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Patients opting out of CRS away from pilot sites
A poll of over 200 GPs has found that almost 60% of them have been approached by patients wanting to opt-out of the summary care record, before the system has even been rolled out in their area. According to Pulse magazine, 59% of GPs surveyed said they had already been approached by patients requesting to […]
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NHS chief exec pledges to help resolve CRS issues
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust that they can count on his full support in resolving the problems they encountered in April after going live with the Millennium Care Records System provided by Fujitsu. In April 79 members of staff from the trust signed a letter outlining their frustrations […]
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NOC still having Millennium problems 18 months on
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) NHS Trust has told E-Health Insider that a year and a half after going live with the Cerner Millennium Release Zero (R0) patient administration system, the system ‘is still presenting problems’ including the system not being Choose and Book compliant. In board papers seen by EHI, the Oxford trust says that […]
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Debate over legality of Care Record Guarantee
British data protection laws used to create the Care Record Guarantee could fall foul of new European Commission data protection laws, adopted in February according to an international law expert. However, the view expressed to the parliamentary select committee on health by Douwe Korff, professor of international law at London Metropolitan University, was vigorously opposed […]
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