Leeds virtualise servers with CSA Waverley
Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has chosen CSA Waverley to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure. CSA Waverley will be installing a new solution to the trust that will consolidate storage to one central location and will virtualise all servers. The aim is to bring business agility and operational efficiencies to the trust. The […]
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An independent view
Professor Tricia Greenhalgh is conducting an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record. She explains why the work is so important.
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An independent view
Professor Tricia Greenhalgh is conducting an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record. She explains why the work is so important.
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Suffolk trusts deploy VoIP over N3 network
Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Suffolk Primary Care Trust have deployed a new voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system to be used with a new Cisco unified communications system provided by Cisilion. The new integrated network will operate across the NHS N3 network – the NHS’s private network – linking 200 hospitals, clinics and […]
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CSE Servelec to upgrade Scottish mental health system
CSE Servelec has been commissioned by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland to upgrade its integrated information management project (IMP) system to reflect changes in the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2003. The upgrade will cover changes in the forms required by the new Mental Health Act, and will enable the IMP system to process additional […]
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Ten new CBT pilots will include online therapy
Health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, has announced that the government is investing £2m on a further ten pathfinder projects into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which will include computerised therapy for patient suffering from anxiety and depression. Hewitt announced the extension of the pilot schemes at the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies conference in London yesterday and the […]
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iSoft director says NPfIT systems ‘interchangeable’
Nick Harte, product management commercial director at iSoft (pictured right), says the systems being delivered into the five clusters of the English NHS National Programme are all “interchangeable”, thanks to Connecting for Health’s decision to adopt a Service Orientated Architecture based around the spine services. Harte, who led the development of iSoft’s Lorenzo product, said that this […]
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Mental health and midwifery leads to join CfH team
Connecting for Health is stepping up its clinical engagement drive with the appointment of new clinical leads for midwifery and mental health nursing and a planned mass distribution of key information about IT modernisation to nurses. Funding for the new clinical leads was announced yesterday (1 May) by the Department of Health’s chief nursing officer, Chris […]
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Granger says ‘consultation’ led to records delays
Richard Granger, the director general of IT for the NHS today (26 April) told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that he blames the two year delay in delivery the electronic patient record system at the heart of the NHS IT programme on ‘consultations’ taking longer than anticipated He said: “Some aspects have been delayed by […]
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BT ‘de-couples’ London Cerner development from South
BT the local service provider for London is to develop its own version of Cerner Millennium for London, separate to the version of the system being installed and developed for use in NHS trusts across the South of England. BT’s decision to de-couple London from the South appears to have been prompted by well documented […]
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