Yorkshire trust procures for new clinical system
South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust has issued a procurement notice for the supply of an integrated clinical information system outside of the NHS Connecting for Health IT programme. Under the accelerated procurement nine non-clinical software systems currently in use will be replaced by a single integrated clinical system starting from April 2006. The […]
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Database aims to improve mental healthcare of young
The First Episode of psychosis Research Network (FERN) has awarded a contract to Tribal Technology for development of a mental health database to improve the provision of mental healthcare to young people. Under the contract Tribal Technology will deliver a dedicated database solution to enable FERN to manage its data collection and analysis requirements as […]
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Arresting ideas
Clinicians who work in police custody in four counties in south-east England are being supported by a new software suite, E-Health Insider reports.
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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS
Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient administration system (PAS) connected to the national NHS spine. The implementation marks a genuine milestone for Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT); BT, NPfIT’s prime contractor for London; and […]
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South London and Maudsley goes live with JAC
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has gone live across the trust with a new pharmacy management system from JAC Computer Services, delivered as part of the NHS National Programme for Information Technology. The JAC system was supplied to the trust by BT, the London local service provider under the NHS IT modernisation programme. JAC […]
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IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog
Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not only in avoiding medication errors but in supporting audit and providing information to professionals. An NAO report published today identifies medication errors, record documentation errors and communication failures as leading causes of incidents in which […]
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Correcting for health
EHI Primary Care looks at Connecting for Health’s work in updating health IT in prisons, and progress in a similar scheme in Ireland.
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Online tool to promote NHS infection awareness
An online training tool to help all NHS staff understand infection control and make hospitals cleaner has been launched by chief nursing officer (CNO), Chris Beasley. Launching the new online tool at the Infection Control Nurses Association annual conference, the CNO said: “This innovative approach to training will mean hundreds and thousands of NHS staff […]
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CfH approaches 2,000th deployment
Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of the beginning of September. The figure represents an increase of over 800 deployments since the beginning of August, reaching a grand total of 1,864. However, a closer reading of the figures reveals that almost all […]
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London trusts go for IP telephony
Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four NHS trusts in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington. The contracts cover the Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT), Islington PCT and Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust – all served by […]
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