Royal Berkshire ‘may walk’ from NHS IT programme
The chairman of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has said the trust “may walk” from the NHS IT Programme, to ensure it gets the IT systems required. Speaking last Thursday, the day after Fujitsu had its £1.1 billion NHS IT contract for the South terminated, Colin MacLean the chairman of Royal Berks said it […]
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Fujitsu exit may hinder trusts on 18-week waits
NHS trusts in the South of England may struggle to reach the national 18-week wait referral to treatment (RTT) target, as a result of the ending of Fujitsu’s contract to provide IT systems, including software to monitor waiting times. The warning, made by healthcare business intelligence specialist Ardentia, comes in the week that the Department […]
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Industry experts call for acute systems of choice
A range of politicians, industry analysts and experts have urged NHS Connecting for Health to use Fujitsu’s exit from the National Programme for IT as an opportunity to introduce acute systems of choice, based on the ASCC catalogue. Fujitsu on Wednesday had its £896m contract as local service provider in the South terminated, after a […]
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No easy answers after Fujitsu
The NHS IT programme faces further delays and difficult decisions on what it does next after firing Fujitsu. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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Fujitsu’s £896m NHS IT contract to be terminated
NHS Connecting for Health is to terminate the £896m contract with Fujitsu to upgrade NHS IT systems across the South of England.
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Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’
Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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CSC and Fujitsu NHS contract resets continue
Negotiations to reset the local service provider contracts in the North, Midlands and East of England, plus the South of England have still not been finalised. E-Health Insider learned this week that a 6 May deadline for the completion of the contract with LSP Computer Sciences Corporation has passed unmet. Both Connecting for Health and […]
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Millennium fails again across Southern England
Many NHS staff in the south were left unable to use the Cerner Millennium care record system last Wednesday morning, after the Fujitsu-provided system failed across the region for the second time in a month. As a result of problems with the centrally hosted system, that lasted an entire Wednesday morning, some staff had to […]
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Southern trusts hit by CRS failure
The Millennium NHS Care Records System application, meant to become the critical clinical system used by NHS staff across Southern England, went down and stayed down for an hour Thursday morning, 24 April in three out of the eight trusts where it has been installed. Though currently limited to patient administration tasks later versions of […]
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