Spine problems force trusts to switch off CRS
Trusts across England were forced to switch off their connection to the Personal Demographics Service, after a weekend upgrade led to the system suffering from ‘intermittent problems’ leading some to stop using their electronic record systems. The weekend upgrade, called Spine release 2008-A, was a major upgrade to the Spine PDS service. The PDS is […]
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Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?
GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they have been known to date.
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CSC fined £5m for late delivery of PAS systems
Computer Sciences Corporation has had to pay penalties totalling around £5m for late delivery of patient administration software.
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CSC re-negotiating delivery of Lorenzo
The contract for delivery of the core strategic clinical software meant to be delivered by the NHS IT programme in three-fifths of the English NHS is being re-negotiated, with talks due to run until the end of 2007.
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PCTs plan moves to single system
Primary care trusts (PCTs) in some areas of northern England have set out plans to move all GP practices onto a single system, TPP’s SystmOne, as contracts for the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative are about to be signed. More than a dozen PCTs in the North-east have published IM&T plans which outline the […]
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CSC reach 600 SystmOne deployments
CSC have reached 600 installations of SystmOne GP system within the North, Midlands and East (NME) Programme for IT. TPP, the supplier of the SystmOne software, is working with CSC, local service provider to the NME Programme for IT, to provide an integrated primary care solution, SystmOne GP, to GPs in the cluster. TPP also supplies […]
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