Community staff in Nottingham trial wireless record access
Community-based health professionals in Nottingham have taken part in a successful three month mobile technology trial, using wireless broadband-enabled laptops from Dell to access and update patient records on the move. The trial enabled staff to remotely access and update electronic patient records from the SystmOne primary and community care system supplied by TPP. The […]
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Johnson named as new health secretary
Alan Johnson has today been appointed as England’s new health secretary by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. The former education secretary replaces Patricia Hewitt who resigned last night. In a letter to Brown, Hewitt said she has decided to step down to give more time to her “constituency and family.” Johnson, 57, was the runner-up in […]
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Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts
The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his campaign to be the next leader of the Labour Party. Brown, the favourite to win the leadership contest, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday that there needed to be “more electronic prescriptions so […]
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Cameron says NHS heart replaced by “computer”
David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, has accused the Labour government of ripping out the heart of the NHS and replacing it with a computer. Cameron used the controversial multi-billion NHS computer project as a metaphor for his accusation that the government has wasted much of its investment in the health service on “gimmicks” from […]
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Maternity delivery delays
Maternity systems form a core part of Local Service Providers’ contracts under the NHS IT programme, but delivery has been painfully slow resulting in some trusts opting for alternative systems, Joe Fernandez investigates.
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Chesterfield Foundation Trust gets SRC digital dictation
SRC has won a European public procurement to provide a trust-wide digital dictation and workflow management solution to Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The trust, which serves the North Derbyshire area, is installing the WinScribe digital dictation solution, for use by clinical and management staff to improve medical record keeping and document production. SRC […]
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NPfIT’s Evolution maternity dropped by Royal Shrewsbury
The NHS trust that was meant to be the pilot site for the National Programme for IT version of iSoft’s Evolution Maternity Information System, has given up waiting for its delayed NPfIT system and implemented an alternative system bought off the shelf. Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire has been waiting for almost two years […]
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Storm over Fujitsu executive’s ‘honest’ NPfIT remarks
A senior executive from local service provider to the Southern cluster, Fujitsu, has said that the intense pressure suppliers are under to deliver short-terms risks the wider aims of the NHS National Programme for IT systems, resulting in a danger of it delivering “a camel, and not the racehorse that we might try to produce.” […]
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New Eclipse MIS will support major research
A new Eclipse maternity information system delivered by Huntleigh Healthcare has been customised to support Born in Bradford – a large study that will track the progress of more than 10,000 babies from pregnancy to adulthood. The maternity information system (MIS) went live in Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the end of January. EHI […]
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Minister responsible for NPfIT to retire
Lord Warner the health minister responsible for the £12.4bn NHS IT project is to retire at the end of the year. No 10 has announced that the Labour peer will retire at the end of the year, in what was described as a "personal decision". The BBC reported that Downing Street had denied that his departure […]
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