Surrey and Sussex becomes sixth Millennium site in South
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, the latest trust to go-live with Cerner’s Millennium R0 patient administration system (PAS) delivered by local service provider Fujitsu. The trust has successfully completed their 45 day implementation programme, but have opted not to deploy order comms functionality yet. The trust, which went live on 20 April, delayed deployment of […]
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60 second interview: Peter Knight
In the first in a new series of 60 second interviews with NHS IT leaders, Joe Fernandez speaks to Peter Knight from Winchester & Eastleigh NHS Trust.
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EuroKing delivers ViewPoint to three NHS trusts
EuroKing Miracle has announced that it has successfully installed the latest version of GE’s ViewPoint gynaecological and pre-natal diagnosis systems into three NHS hospital trusts in the last month. Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Jubilee Maternity Service in Belfast have integrated the system into their obstetric and […]
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Surrey and Sussex go live with Millennium
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has become the latest trust in the Southern cluster to go-live with Cerner’s Millennium Release 0 patient administration system, delivered by local service provider Fujitsu. The trust went live with the system trust-wide on the evening of Friday 20 April, at the same time as local service provider Computer Sciences […]
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Isle of Man chooses System C for major contract
System C has won a £7.5m contract to provide an integrated island-wide healthcare IT service in the Isle of Man. The contract was won against stiff competition with senior sources confirming reports that iSoft and Cerner, contractors to provide systems for the NHS in England, were in the running. Nobles Hospital in Douglas and the […]
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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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Winchester says Millennium becoming ‘more robust’
The delays in implementation of the Cerner Millenium patient administration system have helped to make the system ‘fit for purpose and more robust’, according to the IT lead at Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust. The Mid Hampshire Deployment Family, consisting of three trusts: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, part of Hampshire Partnership Trust and […]
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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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Over 21000 patients search QoF data
Patients have carried out more than 21,000 searches of GP practice data from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) in the last six months. QoF data for England has been available for patients to search since September via a patient-friendly site produced by the Information Centre (IC). The site enables patients to access their own […]
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Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’
Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final stages of being drawn up by Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider understands that the supplier catalogue plans being drawn up may cover […]
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