Health CIO profile: Peter Russell
After a first career in the Armed Forces, Peter Russell knows a thing or two about leadership and innovation. He tells Paul Curran how his military training now helps him fight battles of a different kind.
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Leeds takes EPMA from CSC
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.8m contract with CSC for its Medchart electronic prescribing and medicines administration system.
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226 bids worth £360m made to tech fund 2
The second round of NHS England’s tech fund has received fewer bids than the first, and trusts are looking for less money, according to figures from NHS England.
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Health CIO profile: Joanna Smith
The chief information officer of Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust arrived from global pharma with a remit to transform its IT operations. Sam Sachdeva talks to her.
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Trusts win up to £8.2m in ‘tech fund 1’
Fourteen trusts received more than £3m in funding from the first round of NHS England’s technology fund, which puts an unexpected focus on electronic patient record projects.
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£240m ‘tech fund 2’ opens for bids
NHS England has issued a ‘prospectus’ for the second round of tech fund money, and given trusts two months to get their bids in.
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Last of South acute groups out to tender
A variety of care providers in the south west of England have jointly tendered for an integrated community-wide e-prescribing system.
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Four South trusts tender for ePMA
Four southern acute trusts have tendered for an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system worth £5m-£7m, backed by central funding.
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Birmingham spends £7m on paediatric EPR
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will use £3.3m from the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ to create a paediatric e-prescribing system as part of its electronic patient record project.
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Norfolk live with e-prescribing
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out e-prescribing on two wards in a phased deployment which will cover the whole trust.
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