PCTs juggle choice and strategy
The GP Systems of Choice initiative will be finalised this month leaving PCTs to guide practices up the maturity model to an integrated system. Fiona Barr reports.
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‘Widespread concerns’ about NPfIT penalties
In a new survey NHS foundation trusts have reported ‘widespread concerns’ about the limited functionality of key systems from the NHS National Programme for IT. Some foundation trusts (FTs) that have sought to delay taking systems until problems are fixed say they have been told to expect fines running into many millions of pounds. The FTs […]
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Royal Surrey consolidates data storage
The Royal Surrey County Hospital has implemented a new enterprise data storage system from ONStor to help them consolidate all their data – digital x-rays and diagnostic images – into one file server application. The trust’s IT department decided to look for a new storage system ahead of receiving its new PACS system from Fujitsu which […]
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Cerner to offer full 18-week wait reporting by autumn
Evidence of the different approaches being pursued by Fujitsu the NHS IT local service provider (LSP) in the South of England and BT, the LSP for London, has emerged over how to obtain 18-week reporting from the Cerner Millennium software they are both offering. Cerner has exclusively told E-Health Insider that it will provide tools […]
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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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Southern SHAs assess alternatives for mental health IT
Strategic health authorities in the South of England are evaluating alternative software options to the version of Cerner Millennium being offered by Fujitsu under the NHS IT Programme (NPfIT). Fujitsu, the local service provider for the South, has told E-Health Insider, that it is working with SHAs and trusts to provide them with systems that best […]
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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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Fujitsu picks McKesson for Child Health
McKesson has been selected by Fujitsu to provide its CarePlus child health software to NHS trusts across the South of England under the NHS IT modernisation programme. Fujitsu is the prime contractor – or local service provider (LSP) – for the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the South, responsible for upgrading NHS […]
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Surrey and Sussex becomes sixth Millennium site in South
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, the latest trust to go-live with Cerner’s Millennium R0 patient administration system (PAS) delivered by local service provider Fujitsu. The trust has successfully completed their 45 day implementation programme, but have opted not to deploy order comms functionality yet. The trust, which went live on 20 April, delayed deployment of […]
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Millennium R0 not capturing 18 week referrals data
NHS trusts in the South of England using Cerner Millennium Release 0 are not yet able to electronically capture 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) data, one of the government’s key objectives for the NHS. Trusts have been required to report on RTT times since January, with the target to be achieved for all 18-week […]
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