Main NPfIT contractors paid £1.2bn last year
Despite continued delays in many areas of the National Programme for IT,Connecting for Health paid its main contractors over £1.5bn in the past financial year.
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Trust business continuity solution launched
A business continuity solution to help trusts ensure that critical management reports are not interrupted by migrations from legacy systems to new NHS systems has been launched by data management specialist, Stalis. According to the company, trusts have found that business continuity is a risk as they change systems in the move towards the new […]
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PACS – worth the hype?
‘Your doctor will never look at you in the same way again’ – Joe Fernandez asks one radiologist at St Peter’s Hospital Chertsey what his experiences are digital x-rays have been.
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South edges towards ‘best of breed’ approach
The re-negotiation of the NHS IT Programme contract between Fujitsu and the NHS in the South of England appears to be heading towards a best of breed approach.
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CRS delayed MRSA patients being isolated
Problems with the Care Records System installed at Buckingham Hospitals NHS Trust resulted in delays to potentially infectious patients with MRSA not being isolated. The problem arose as after the new system was turned on historic infection control alerts then had to be manually entered onto the system in the six weeks following go-live The […]
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Worthing to switch on Millennium PAS
Worthing Hospital NHS Trust will this weekend become the latest hospital in the South of England to go live with a new patient administration system from Fujitsu. The trust will switch over to the Cerner Millennium PAS software, known as Cerner release zero, under the multi-billion NHS IT programme. Worthing will become the seventh NHS […]
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Cerner contract re-set puts focus on local needs
Cerner, the system supplier to the London and Southern Programme for IT, has suspended design work on the Millennium Release Two patient administration system, throwing deployment schedules into further doubt, E-Health Insider has learnt. Despite this, Cerner emphasised that work was still going ahead to implement Millennium into Southern trusts, but with much greater emphasis being placed […]
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Lessons learned
Southern England, perhaps more than any other region, has produced a mixed picture of NHS IT modernisation. Senior executives from local service provider, Fujitsu, explain the real situation as they see it.
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Contract ‘reset’ underway in the South
The new NHS programme director for the NHS IT programme in the South of England says she is not happy with the core patient administration system delivered so far, and confirmed that a far-reaching ‘reset’ of contracts has been launched. Sarah Elmendorf took up the new post of programme director at the Southern Programme for […]
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Fujitsu says ‘full steam ahead’ in South
Half of the Southern cluster’s 35 sites have agreed ‘full steam-ahead’ go-live dates to take the initial Millennium patient administration system, E-Health Insider has learned from local service provider (LSP) for the region, Fujitsu. Fujitsu’s managing director for the UK public sector, Peter Hutchinson, told E-Health Insider that the local service provider is engaged in […]
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