Royal Free evaluates Cerner fixes
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust is evaluating the results of the three month rescue programme to fix known problems in its Cerner Millennium system. Trust board papers state that on 6 October, BT, the local service provider for London, together with the London Programme for IT and the trust, began a 90-day programme of […]
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma on the Operating Framework and the future of the National Programme.
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Child immunisation software ‘creating risks’
The interim child health system in London is creating risks to the effective running of the childhood immunisation programme, according to PCTs.
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Royal Marsden implements secure remote access
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has created a secure remote working environment for clinicians to support its business strategy of delivering care closer to patients’ homes. The plans were well advanced before the trust suffered a fire at its Chelsea hospital in January this year, but this confirmed the need for clinicians to be […]
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St Mary’s further delays go live of Cerner CRS
St Mary’s Hospital, part of London’s Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, has delayed plans to go-live this coming weekend with the Cerner Millennium electronic records system supplied by BT as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. St Mary’s was due to be the first part of the giant trust to implement […]
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Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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Royal Free flags training issues
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has rebutted local newspaper coverage claiming that it has suffered a "month of computer chaos." The trust admits there has been some issues since it went live with the London Cluster Release 1 version of Cerner Millennium. However, it says these were not unexpected and staff are already seeing […]
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CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts
The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen within the government’s two week deadline.
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BT award Sectra new PACS maintenance contract
BT has signed a new contract with medical imaging specialists Sectra to provide support and maintenance for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in use across London. The agreement, effective immediately, means that all 21 London acute trusts will now receive any support or maintenance for their Sectra PACS units, direct from the developer. Previously, […]
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A year in review: LSPs in 2007
EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service providers: Fujitsu, CSC and BT.
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