DH shifts IT from ‘replace’ to ‘connect’
NHS informatics in England will move from a “replace all” to “connect all” philosophy, the Department of Health has announced. Informatics planning guidance for 2010-11 says an updated strategic direction for informatics will be developed over the coming months to reflect the change in emphasis. The guidance says a new direction has also been agreed for […]
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Dudley PCT goes virtual on desktops
Dudley Primary Care Trust has announced that it has been working with IT consultancy Centralis to develop a shared service infrastructure underpinned by a virtualised desktop environment. The PCT said the two key factors driving the move were the need to manage user requirements for 3000 staff spread across more than 100 locations and its […]
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NHS IT programme faces cuts
Parts of the multibillion-pound national NHS IT progamme could be cancelled in this week’s Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor has warned.
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Oldham outsources IT to Computacenter
NHS Oldham has outsourced its IT services to Computacenter in a four year deal worth £650,000 a year. The primary care trust says the deal has already saved it 10% on its previous arrangements, provided by a PCT-run shared service. It estimates savings of a further 25% over the next year to 18 months. Stephen […]
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Green NHS, Green IT
Chris Wilber, director of infrastructure at the NHS Technology Office, discusses the role of IT in greening the NHS.
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Moorfields merges help desks
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has implemented service management software from Hornbill enabling it to consolidate its three service desks into one. The trust has rolled-out Hornbill’s Supportworks ITSM service management software to provide support to over 1,200 clinical and administrative staff across 11 sites in London. The software enables 18 staff in the IT […]
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Fordway infrastructure for London PCT
NHS Hammersmith and Fulham has implemented a new storage and disaster recovery infrastructure provided by ICT integrator Fordway Solutions. The primary care trust said the new storage solution was needed to handle anticipated data growth and reduce both the physical size of its server space and server power consumption. It said implementation had reduced its […]
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LSPs paid a quarter of contract price
The local service providers of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been paid £1.1 billion, less than a quarter of the projected amounts for their projects.
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Guernsey progresses InterSystems EHSCR
InterSystems has announced that Guernsey Health and Social Services Department has gone-live with key elements of its island-wide Electronic Health and Social Care Record (EHSCR). Guernsey has replaced its thirteen year old patient administration system, SWIFT, with InterSystems’ TrakCare, while simultaneously implementing new Accident and Emergency and theatre software and specialist child health software from CSE Healthcare […]
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Kelsey – info should be compulsory
GPs and all other NHS providers should be mandated to publish routine, standardised data on their outcomes, according to the chairman of health information firm Dr Foster. Tim Kelsey told E-Health Insider Live ’09 that only English hospitals currently publish outcomes data and the next government should ‘force the pace.’ He said a future government […]
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