Fujitsu signs with Cerner for South
Fujitsu Services has officially awarded a contract to Cerner Ltd in order to provide its Millennium clinical software to NHS organisations across the South of England under the NHS National Programme for IT. The contract, signed on Friday, 2 September, covers using Cerner’s Millennium software for the NHS Care Records Service in the Southern Cluster. […]
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Hampshire SHA payroll staff transfer to Xansa
Xansa’s NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), a joint venture with the DH designed to centralise financial systems across the NHS, has signed up its first shared payroll service in a Strategic Health Authority in the south-west of England. Accounts staff at Hampshire Shared Financial Services (HSFS), who currently handle financial and payroll services for the area covered by Hampshire […]
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£1bn NHS electronic procurement network formed
UKprocure have announced the establishment of the NHS Trading Network (NHSTN), which brings together 53 NHS organisations nationwide in one electronic procurement system. The organisations, which include trusts in East London, Oxford, the North-East and Hampshire with a total spend of £1bn, are now banding together in an ‘eMarketplace’ in the aim of achieving savings […]
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PACS tomorrow
Daloni Carlisle reports for E-Health Insider on why PACS delivery is slower than expected, and reveals that affordability is mostly to blame.
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Fujitsu presents its LSP line-up
Fujitsu Services has provided further details of the members of its Local Service Provider (LSP) consortia line-up, following Monday’s announcement that it had been awarded the LSP contract for the South of England. The team, known as the Fujitsu Alliance, comprises Fujitsu as prime contractor; IDX Systems Corporation for the core clinical application; Tata Consultancy […]
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ETP Pilots Evaluation Challenged
One of the three consortia set up to test electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) says an official evaluation does not take account of its later work on the project when the volume of prescriptions processed picked up. The evaluation commissioned by the government was published on 17 September as part of package of announcements from […]
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Trusts Must Not Stop Local IT Investment – Lord Hunt
NHS trusts must put sustained local investment into their IT to complement investment from the National IT Programme, health minister Lord Hunt told a London conference this week. He said investment from the National Programme will be made “very much around a condition that the NHS locally invests its resources too.” The changes ahead were […]
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