Foundation trusts tender outside NPfIT
E-Health Insider has learned that just a month after the publication of the Health Informatics Review, a number of NHS foundation trusts have begun to move to non-National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust have seperately placed advertisements for electronic patient record systems […]
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Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust was forced to develop workarounds for isolating MRSA patients after Cerner’s Millennium care records system was unable to cope with its superbug monitoring system for 18 months. In minutes obtained by E-Health Insider under the Freedom of Information Act, the trust’s National Programme for IT in the NHS programme board says […]
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South may split between CSC and BT
No single prime contractor may be appointed to replace Fujitsu in the programme to upgrade NHS IT systems in the South of England. Instead, the region may be split between the two remaining prime contractors, BT and Computer Sciences Corporation. E-Health Insider has learned that some trusts covered by NHS South East Coast, one of […]
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Milton Keynes’ CRS caused ‘near melt down’
The deployment of a national programme care records system at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust “developed into an untenable situation which resulted in near melt down of the organisation.”
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Fujitsu exit costs Cerner £89m in lost bookings
Cerner has said the termination of Fujitsu’s contract as local service provider to the Southern Programme for IT cost it £89m ($178m) in bookings removed from its second quarter results. Despite the revised figures, the US clinical software company on Tuesday posted strong figures for the second quarter, showing revenue up to £201m ($402.8m). It said […]
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Bath ends planned Fujitsu deployment
Bath’s Royal United Hospital NHS Trust has terminated the planned implementation of a Cerner Millennium care record system that was to have been supplied by Fujitsu. On 26 June, E-health Insider reported that the trust had delayed a planned 12 July implementation, because of the uncertainty created by Fujitsu’s departure as the National Programme for […]
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BT on track to get southern Cerner trusts
British Telecom is on track to take over responsibility of the eight southern NHS trusts running Cerner Millennium from Fujitsu, with an agreement now likely to be reached in August. At the launch of the NHS Informatics Review last week Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, told E-Health Insider that negotiations were […]
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We live in digital times
Nick Timmins, public policy editor of the Financial Times, argues that the NHS has to succeed in digitisatising if it is to last another 60 years.
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Royal United Hospital Bath shelves Millennium go-live
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust has shelved its planned 12 July implementation of a new Cerner Millennium patient record system due to uncertainty created by Fujitsu’s departure from the NHS IT programme. The decision was taken just days before the trust was to begin transferring data from its old TDS patient administration system. Hundreds […]
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Fujitsu staff talks: 700 possible redundancies
Seven hundred staff working on the NHS Southern Programme for IT face possible redundancy, following the termination of Fujitsu’s £1.1bn contract by Connecting for Health two weeks ago. The former local service provider is to hold discussions with the 1000 members of staff working on the NHS IT contract this week, telling them their options […]
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