Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has disbanded its Care Records System team and will implement a system from Ascribe instead. Following Fujitsu’s exit from the National Programme for IT, the trust decided to use its contingency plans to consolidate all of its existing systems into a single system known as ePEX […]
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BT in talks to take over Cerner trusts in south
BT has confirmed it is in talks to take over responsibility for trusts in the south with Cerner Millennium
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Fujitsu may lose southern NHS PACS deal
Fujitsu may not have its contract renewed to provide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) services to NHS trusts in the south of England. The development comes two weeks after Fujitsu had its £1.1bn contract as local service provider (LSP) for the region terminated on 28 May, following its withdrawal from contract re-negotiations. Fujitsu had […]
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Winchester has four-day Millennium failure
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, has in the past week suffered a four day problem with its Cerner Millennium Care Records System (CRS) that left it unavailable to some users for up to four days. The problems began on Thursday, 5 June, and though largely resolved by Sunday were not fully fixed until Monday, […]
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CfH overlooks the present at Smart Healthcare
NHS Connecting for Health’s presence at this week’s Smart Healthcare expo left many attendees disappointed. Chief operating officer, Gordon Hextall, and national clinical director, Dr Mark Davies, were unexpectedly absent, and their stand-ins had little to say about current concerns. Hextall pulled out of Tuesday’s stream – ‘Leading transformational change in the NHS’ – which […]
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Negotiations over £143m Fujitsu advance continue
Questions about advance payments made to Fujitsu by NHS Connecting for Health are still to be resolved, as discussions on contract termination continue between the two parties. Figures submitted to the National Audit Office on 31 March showed that Fujitsu received £370m out of £1.3billion of advance payments from CfH, but were to repay £143m. […]
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Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London
Kevin Jarrold, NHS London’s chief information officer and the London Programme for IT’s regional implementation director, has pledged to have installed 15 acute care records systems by the end of the current financial year. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo, Jarrold said that after a “patchy” start for LPfIT in delivering core systems to acute […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 06.06.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 06 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Barts and the London School uses TurningPoint interactive assessments Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has announced that it has chosen Turning Technologies interactive assessment tool, […]
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Primary care following Fujitsu
Following the exit of Fujitsu from the NHS IT programme in the South of England, Fiona Barr explores what the implications are for primary care.
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Fujitsu’s exit may hasten systems choice
Long term system choice for GPs could have moved a step nearer with the departure of local service provider (LSP) Fujitsu, according to primary care IT representatives. Last week Connecting for Heath terminated Fujitsu’s £896m contract as LSP for the South, leaving question marks over who might take over and how it will affect development […]
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