NHS Direct pilots home working
NHS Direct is to consider allowing a large number of its staff to work from home, if a pilot shows positive results. The telephone and web advice service has already closed one of its sites in Portsmouth in order to allow staff to work from home. The organisation, which employs more than 3,000 people across the […]
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McKesson commits to bring Paragon to NHS
US healthcare IT company, McKesson, has committed to bring its Paragon hospital information system to the NHS market.
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CfH signs £36m McKesson PAS support deal
NHS Connecting for Health has signed a £36m, four year deal with McKesson to continue to provide support for the patient administration systems used by 26 trusts.
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London IT Programme slashed
NHS trusts in London have been told they will get a dramatically scaled back programme of IT modernisation following the new contract signed with BT last week.
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West country picks McKesson child system
A group of NHS trusts and primary care trusts in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire have awarded a new contract to McKesson to continue to provide its CarePlus Child Health software for child health services.
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‘Four more years’ for McKesson
The Department of Health is negotiating four year support deals for the 21 NHS hospital trusts running McKesson patient administration systems.
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QMH goes it alone with iSoft
ISoft has signed a £1m deal with NHS Wandsworth to provide the latest version of its CliniCom Patient Administration System to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. The contract will see Queen Mary’s Hospital split from its joint iSoft PAS, which is currently hosted by Kingston Hospitals NHS Trust, after Kingston goes-live with Cerner Millennium as part […]
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Newcastle makes switch to Cerner
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully gone live with its new Cerner Millennium hospital information system.
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Newcastle set to switch on Millennium
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning for a “low-key” go live of its new Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system tonight.
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Quick wins
Over the moon, gobsmacked, delighted – just some of the reactions from the winners of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT.
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