Germany joins hospital RFID pilots
Germany has joined the growing number of countries experimenting with wireless tagging of hospital patients to improve safety and provide easier access to data. The Klinikum SaarbrÜcken in western Germany, this month launched a pilot project covering 1000 patients in collaboration with technology partners Siemens Business Services, Intel and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. In addition to making patient […]
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NHS contract delays hit TATA growth
Another commercial player in the National Programme for IT, TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), has reported lower than average financial figures that confirm implementation delays. TCS, an international outsourcing firm headquartered in Mumbai, India, reported an unusual revenue slowdown in their European operations, which they attributed to delays in implementing core solutions within the NHS. TCS […]
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New deal to share responsibility for CRS delays
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has confirmed that it has signed "shared governance arrangements" with BT and Fujitsu, LSPs for London and the south of England, that will spread responsibility for the late running core NHS Care Records Service (CRS) between the three parties. A spokesperson for NHS Connecting for Health, the new agency administering […]
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Practices to get choice of any LSP primary care system
In a major change of direction all GP practices in England are to get a choice between all the accredited practice systems offered by any of the four local service providers within the NHS National Programme for IT. In a double announcement the Department of Health will today confirm – as first reported by EHI […]
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NPfIT to jettison its name…and some suppliers
The National Programme for IT is to change its name to Connecting for Health, NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced today. Speaking at Healthcare Computing 2005 in Harrogate, Granger explained that Connecting for Health was "what we are about". But the re-branding will not disguise some harsh realities for suppliers to the programme some of […]
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PACS judicial review refused
A legal challenge that had the potential to further delay the signing of PACS contracts in the North East and Eastern clusters has been turned down by the High Court. Fuji Photo Film (UK) Limited had applied for a judicial review of the procurement of PACS systems under the National Programme for IT. An NPfIT […]
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InPractice Systems set to sign for the South
Fujitsu Alliance, Local Service Provider for the Southern cluster, looks set to finalise contract negotiations with InPractice Systems to supply a version of its Vision 3 system as the ‘alternative’ GP software solution, E-Health Insider has learned. A communication from a Strategic Health Authority chief information officer in the South received by EHI last week […]
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NHS CRS delayed by nine months in South
The delivery schedule for the core NHS Care Records Service (CRS) solution in the South of England has slipped by nine months. The key release that will start to deliver clinical functionality such as order communications is now not due until June 2006 at the earliest. E-Health Insider has learned that the Southern Cluster Implementation […]
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Cheap as chips
The Home Computing Initiative provides savings for both employees buying PCs and their employers. Fiona Barr looks at how it works in the NHS.
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GPs say they are not being listened to
Lack of consultation and the threat to GPs existing computer systems are the biggest failings of the National Programme for IT and the ones that has angered most GPs, according to feedback from GPs who were questioned in the latest survey by Medix-UK. Out of the 900 doctors who took part in the survey, 191 […]
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