SCRs for nine in ten in Darlington
More than 90% of patients in NHS Darlington have a Summary Care Record, making it the primary care trust with the highest uptake to date in England.
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Durham and Darlington tenders for EPR
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a care records system and e-prescribing functionality.
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NHS Direct – number not service to go
Health secretary Andrew Lansley told reporters last week that NHS Direct would be replaced with a new 111 service, but the helpline says it is ‘business as usual’ and that only its 0845 number will be scrapped.
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Waiting not an option
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust tells Jon Hoeksma why it can’t wait for NPfIT to deliver.
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Five trusts sign up for e-rostering software
Five NHS trusts and a private hospital group are set to adopt Manpower Software’s MAPS Healthroster system which is designed to ease the staffing issues at hospitals and trusts and help to control costs. Manpower says the MAPS solution has been designed for, and in partnership with, the NHS and healthcare market. It aims to deliver verified […]
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Bradford to be first ex-Accenture acute trust to go live
The first acute trust in the two NHS clusters that Computer Sciences Corporation officially took over from Accenture in January has told E-Health Insider it is confident it will go live with a new patient administration system by this April. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told E-Health Insider that it is on track […]
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New Darlington walk-in centre uses EHR
A new nurse-led walk-in centre to treat minor ailments in the North-East of England is to be based around sharable electronic patient records. The centre, at Doctor Piper House, Darlington, County Durham, incorporates the Phoenix Partnership’s SystmOne Emergency software to store, process and transfer patient data. “The essential part of a walk-in centres is that […]
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Procurement Starts on Telepathology for Tees Valley and County Durham
Procurement has started on telepathology technology to enable videoconferencing and image sharing between cancer physicians in the Tees Valley and County Durham. An OJEC advertisement has been placed for the telemedicine solution which will serve six acute hospitals in the area between Darlington and Durham, covering Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Bishop Auckland and Hartlepool. The solution will […]
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