Wandsworth abandons Cerner plans
NHS Wandsworth has abandoned plans to install Cerner Millennium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. The primary care trust said the change to its IT plans was due to repeated delays and concerns about security as well as the unsuitability of Millennium for federated Polyclinic models […]
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Simulation improves falls care
A primary care trust has won an award for its use of a computer-based simulation programme to forecast the impact of a proposed new care pathway. East Riding PCT used the Scenario Generator tool to look at its plan for a new pathway to reduce the chances and numbers of falls and to cut attendance […]
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Confed calls for community IT
Community services lag behind much of the rest of the NHS on IT investment, according to the NHS Confederation’s Primary Care Trust Network. The PCT Network, which represents the majority of PCTs in England, is calling for lack of IT investment to be corrected in a report published this week. The report, The Future for […]
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TPP named as CSC strategic solution
Primary care software supplier TPP has announced that it has signed an agreement with local service provider CSC, which makes SystmOne the strategic solution in the North, Midlands and East of England.
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Bury using SCR for end of life care
The Summary Care Record will start to hold information on end of life plans in the next few months, according to NHS Connecting for Health. The IT agency has set out its plans to develop the SCR for end of life care and the progress that has been made at NHS Bury, one of the early […]
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Hampshire rejects SCR for HHR
The largest primary care trust in England has decided not to implement the Summary Care Record in the next 12 months and to expand its own shared care record system instead.
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At least four southern trusts plan for Lorenzo
At least four hospitals in the South of England intend to implement Lorenzo, according to informatics plans, with community and mental health trusts taking systems from both TPP and CSE-Servelec. In NHS South Central, several hospital trusts that have yet to receive a system under the National Programme for IT in the NHS appear to be planning […]
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NHS Surrey drops coaching service
A primary care trust has dropped its health coaching service from private contractor Bupa Health Dialog, as the row over the consent model for telephone support services continues.
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Talking hands
SignTranslate Hospital won the Healthcare ICT Product Innovation category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards, sponsored by Quicksilva. Sandra Hempel finds out more.
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INPS warns of possible QoF problems
Around 20% of GP practices in the UK may have errors in their end of year returns for the Quality and Outcomes Framework because of a fault in their INPS system, it has emerged. INPS issued a fix for the fault on Thursday and has advised all practices to run a new QoF report. It […]
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