Great Yarmouth GPs use pathology e-requesting
GP practices in East Anglia are using a new order communications solution called GP RequestVision from Olympus, to request pathology tests from the nearby James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. GPs from practices in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney are using the solution to order pathology tests online via a simple tick box style form, interfaced […]
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Praise for departed head of CfH
With the news of Richard Granger’s departure as head of Connecting for Health, a number of the key individuals he has worked with offered their praise. The DH made clear that it will not replace him directly but with a DH CIO and CfH director of programme and systems delivery: “Matthew Swindells will act as […]
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MPs call for data loss to be a crime
Reckless or repeated breaches of data security should become a criminal offence, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee has urged in its report into the protection of private data. The call follows the loss of 25m people’s personal details by HM Revenue and Customs last November, described by the committee as ‘truly shocking’. The […]
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2007 in review
As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the news in 2007.
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Immediate NHS data security review ordered
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has written to all NHS trust chief executives instructing them to immediately review and tighten their information governance and data transfer arrangements. The 4 December letter requires trusts to urgently re-examine the arrangements and policies local trusts have for securing data in transit. Trusts are told to urgently buy-in additional […]
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Unclear whether Granger will be replaced
The Department of Health has rejected strong rumours that one of its senior policy advisers, Matthew Swindells, has been appointed interim chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health, replacing Richard Granger. In a statement to E-Health Insider the department that suggests Granger may not be replaced and that following review of NHS IT now underway, the current Connecting for […]
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Granger says he is ‘ashamed’ of some systems provided
The departing head of the NHS IT programme Richard Granger has said he is ashamed of the quality of some of the systems put into the NHS by Connecting for Health suppliers, singling Cerner out for criticism. Going further than he before in acknowledging the extent of failings of systems provided to some parts of […]
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Millennium problems at Taunton condemned by consultant
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust have delayed deploying Cerner Millennium software due to ‘severe security problems’, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting heard. The software had been due to go live the weekend beginning 29 June. Calling for a public inquiry into the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), David Wrede, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, told the […]
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Granger to leave in transition by end of 2007
Connecting for Health chief executive, Richard Granger is to leave the agency responsible for delivering the National Programme for IT to the NHS in England ‘during the latter part of this year.’ In a personal statement issued today, he said he would ‘transition’ from his full time post at the agency he was largely responsible for […]
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Lord Hunt to form clinical buy-in group
Health minister Lord Hunt has announced that he is to form a high-level group with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to encourage buy-in at a local level in the NHS. Hunt told the Commons Health Select Committee he intends to ensure that NHS strategic health authorities (SHAs) get more involved with the national programme […]
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