Electronic staff record now biggest NHS payroll provider
The NHS Electronic Staff Record is now installed in over 150 sites across England after being implemented of the largest set of sites yet, and is now the largest payroll provider in the NHS, according to latest figures published by the DH. The third and largest wave of the project so far was completed this […]
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No pleasure in Accenture losses, says Granger
Richard Granger, NHS director-general of IT, jokingly told conference delegates today that the $450m losses one of his prime contractors, Accenture, announced this week against its National Programme for IT contracts would be sufficient for the firm to hire “every Bulgarian hit man to take me out”. Speaking at the World Health Congress, Paris, he said that […]
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Hammersmith chooses Technidata for blood transfusion
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a contract with Technidata to replace its two existing blood transfusion systems with TD-BloodBank, a component of the firm’s TD-Synergy integrated Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The trust has also signed up to pilot Pocket TD-BloodBank, a portable version of the software that provides access from networked and handheld […]
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US government awards EHR pilot contracts
The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC, IBM and Northrop Grumman to develop four pilot health information infrastructures across twelve locations in ten states, and then release the designs into the public domain. The four groups, the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) consortia, will […]
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Hampshire SHA payroll staff transfer to Xansa
Xansa’s NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), a joint venture with the DH designed to centralise financial systems across the NHS, has signed up its first shared payroll service in a Strategic Health Authority in the south-west of England. Accounts staff at Hampshire Shared Financial Services (HSFS), who currently handle financial and payroll services for the area covered by Hampshire […]
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£1bn NHS electronic procurement network formed
UKprocure have announced the establishment of the NHS Trading Network (NHSTN), which brings together 53 NHS organisations nationwide in one electronic procurement system. The organisations, which include trusts in East London, Oxford, the North-East and Hampshire with a total spend of £1bn, are now banding together in an ‘eMarketplace’ in the aim of achieving savings […]
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NHS Shared Business Services on launchpad
Xansa has announced that it is to formally launch NHS Shared Business Services, its joint venture with the Department of Health in which some back-office financial services will be computerised and outsourced, on schedule on 1 April 2005. A total of 47 of eligible NHS organisations have signed up for the project. As part of […]
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Patient records on spine to be accessed via PDA
Oracle, who are providing infrastructure for the NPfIT for the NHS data spine, have signed a partnership deal with Medify Solutions, a based mobile services provider based near Newbury, to provide the ability to access patient records over PDAs. The MedifyRemote system will not just allow access to records on the data spine, but theoretically […]
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Web catalogue powers up procurement project
A collaborative NHS procurement project in the north-east of England has combined its bargaining power with the new ability to buy non-clinical items through a web-based catalogue. The North East Patches Shared Systems Project, which includes NHS organisations within Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, and North-East Yorkshire, allows requisitioning to take place over a simple web […]
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Portsmouth pioneers reverse e-auction for generic drugs
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust claimed an e-health first this week with an announcement that it had completed the UK’s first reverse online pharmaceutical supplies auction. A reverse auction works, as the name suggests, in the opposite way to a conventional auction in which prices start low and bidders increase their offers. In Portsmouth’s reverse auction […]
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