Crossed wires
Despite a bumpy start, the first booking made with IBS over Choose and Book in Wandsworth was a success, EHI Primary Care reports.
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Red rose rising
EHI Primary Care talks to Lancashire Care NHS Trust, the first mental health trust in England to receive a PAS system from Connecting for Health.
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Choose and Book work agreed with McKesson
Health IT specialist, McKesson has signed a framework agreement with NHS Connecting for Health for upgrade work to enable trusts using the firm’s TotalCARE patient administration system to implement Choose and Book. The system is used by 22 acute hospital trusts five of which have already been converted and are using TotalCARE to accept bookings. These include […]
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Granger issues stern warning for failing suppliers
Richard Granger, director general of NHS IT and chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health, has delivered another stern warning to suppliers lagging behind on delivery. Speaking at the Health and Social Care Exchange conference in London, he said: "There is a problem with some suppliers. The strategy of not giving the whole of the […]
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Choose and Book adopters to get tech support
The Department of Health is set to launch a high level technical help scheme to support local Choose and Book implementation after lessons from the early adopters showed IT support is vital to success. Jane Cummings, national implementation director, told a conference organised by HSJ this week: “Lots of the issues in the early adopter […]
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A matter of trust
Richard Granger talks to EHI about NHS trusts’ responsibilities in the NPfIT and the story of the programme so far.
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UCLH makes switch to Carecast
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go live with the new electronic patient administration system (PAS) that will become the standard for all hospitals in London. The move puts the trust at the leading edge of NHS IT, making it the first big acute hospital trust to […]
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Baby steps
E-Health Insider Primary Care reports on two pilot initiatives in sharing of children’s details between local authority and health service professionals.
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Delivery delays mount across the national programme
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that there are delays in implementing the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in four of the five regions in England, with the biggest slippages occurring in delivering new integrated clinical systems to acute hospitals. As previously reported the delivery of new hospital systems in London and the South […]
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Practice manager finds no opt-out from NCRS
A practice manager has tried and failed to prevent her health record, which contains a significant error, being stored in existing databases and the planned national NHS Care Records Service. Helen Wilkinson of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, who manages a practice in West London, has de-registered from the NHS following a long correspondence about the problem. […]
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