Renegotiating LSP deals may prove costly
A senior industry analyst has compared the potential cost of renegotiating the NHS’s local service provider contracts, worth £4 billion, to “bailing out the banks”. With the addition of BT’s National Application Service Provider deal for the NHS Spine the total value of contracts to be renegotiated rises to £5 billion. Mike Davis, senior analyst at […]
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Birmingham OwnHealth expands
A pioneering telephone-based care management programme is expanding to cover patients with a wider range of conditions. Birmingham OwnHealth, which is run by NHS Birmingham East and North together with NHS Direct and Pfizer Health Solutions, offers telephone support to patients with long-term conditions in areas with health inequalities and high levels of deprivation. The project […]
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London PCTs pilot polysystem IT
Two London primary care trusts have been chosen to work on a pilot project looking at interoperability in polyclinics.
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EPS R2 goes live in Leeds
Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service has gone live at its first site in Leeds, NHS Connecting for Health has announced.
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EMIS LV approved for SCR roll out
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that EMIS’s LV system has achieved full roll out approval for the Summary Care Record, which the agency has described as major breakthrough for the programme.
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System C buys Liquidlogic
Healthcare IT software and services specialist System C has purchased UK social services software supplier Liquidlogic.
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Problems at flagship urgent care service
A flagship urgent care service covering five primary care trusts generated dozens of complaints from patients and doctors in its first two months of operation – and call handler NHS Direct had £23,000 withheld for failing to meet its contractual requirements. West Yorkshire Urgent Care covers more than 2m patients in Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Calderdale […]
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QIPP focus for Yorks and Humber IT
More than 50% of GP practices in NHS Yorkshire and the Humber will be on TPP’s SystmOne by the end of the financial year. But delivery of the Lorenzo electronic patient record remains a significant risk, according to a board paper presented to the strategic health authority. IT plans outlined in the report to this month’s […]
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Interim flu line for 100,000 cases a day
The Department of Health’s interim flu line service is expected to be operational by next week, as the government predicts 100,000 swine flu cases a day by the end of August. The interim arrangements for the flu line, which has had its name changed to the National Pandemic Flu Service, have been put in place […]
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Queen Mary’s to investigate EMIS Web
NHS Wandsworth is exploring whether EMIS Web could take the role intended for Cerner Millenium at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton, London. The primary care trust has abandoned plans to install Millenium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, as reported by E-Health Insider in May, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. Last week […]
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