CfH publishes OGC Gateway Reviews
Health service IT agency NHS Connecting for Health has published the Office of Government Commerce gateway reviews of the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) carried out between 2002 and 2005.
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Perot to help implement Meditech at Rotherham
US health software firm Meditech has announced that Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has selected its 6.0 Health Care Information System (HCIS) as its primary software provider. Perot Systems will provide consultancy services in implementing the software at the Foundation Trust. E-Health Insider first reported in March that Rotherham had selected Meditech to provide it with […]
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Paperless without a PAS
Sarah Bruce talks to Stephen Parsons, IM&T projects manager at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.
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NHS radiology kit rolled-out
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has sent trusts in England a new radiology kit to help departments improve their booking processes and reduce waiting times. Transforming your Radiology Services Kit: Focus on Booking Processes, intends to reduce the long waiting times often caused by a bottleneck in patient pathways as part of the […]
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Cerner UK announces redundancies
Cerner has announced a round of redundancies of UK staff, based on the sharply reduced number of implementations it now expects to deliver.
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BT advanced payments to be deducted
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has said that all of the £92.8m advanced payment made to BT for work in the South will be deducted from the amount paid upon delivery of the systems it is contracted to provide. In a parliamentary written answer, dated 7 May, Bradshaw said all of the sum will be deducted […]
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Capita wins quality mark contract
The Department of Health has appointed Capita to manage the Information Standard accreditation scheme that is due to be launched later this summer. The contract is the second big information win for Capita in the past year. Last July, the outsourcing specialist won the contract to run NHS Choices for three years, taking over from […]
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TPP SystmOne likely choice for prisons
TPP’s SystmOne Prison looks likely to be chosen as the national clinical IT system for England’s prisons. The Department of Health has commissioned NHS Connecting for Health to deliver a national clinical IT system for every prison in England and TPP’s SystmOne Prison has been selected as the preferred option. The system is already being […]
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