NHS Scotland begins national EPR procurement
The NHS National Services Scotland, on behalf of NHS Scotland, has issued an OJEU invitation for expressions of interest for systems and services to support the national development of electronic patient records. NHS Scotland plans to procure a system known as Generic Clinical System (GCS), which will provide a set of tools to facilitate flexible […]
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The Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS)
The quality and outcomes framework (QoF) is designed to reward practices for the quality of care offered to their patients and will be an important part of General Practice income for the next few years.
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MPs told Wales, Scotland and NI passed on NPfIT
The NHS in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales were each approached and subsequently turned down the opportunity to participate in the £6billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT), a Commons select committee has been told. As a result, hospitals in England treating patients from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland face the prospect of having to maintain […]
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Scottish GPs say GPASS is failing doctors
GPs in Scotland have warned the Scottish Executive that the official Scotland-wide IT system for general practice, GPASS, is failing doctors. The warning came when Scottish doctors recently debated and passed a motion at their annual conference which claimed that GPASS (the General Practice Administration System), a system for managing general practice, is "continuing to fail […]
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Lothian upgrades Wise radiology solution
Lothian University Hospitals Trust is to upgrade its Radwise radiology information system (RIS) to a new web-based system with greatly enhanced functionality. The trust will be the first in Scotland to order this type of RIS from Wise Healthcare Systems’ Virtual Radiology solutions. Wise will be implementing the new Radwise 5 system and providing training […]
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Edinburgh pulls plug on McKesson implementation
Lothian Health Board has announced that it has terminated its contract with McKesson for the provision of a Hospital Information System (HIS) for the flagship Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI). The decision marks a further significant blow for McKesson in the UK. In 2003 the firm was dropped at an early stage in the £2.3 billion […]
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Bedvacs online care home service launched in Edinburgh
Online care home vacancy service Bedvacs has announced that it has launched in Scotland with the launch of Bedvacs in Edinburgh. Bedvacs is an online bed availability service, designed to make it easier for care managers and social care staff to quickly find suitable residential care places for elderly clients. Care managers and social workers […]
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Disclosure: a key issue for Caldicott Guardians in 2004
The UK’s 1,000 plus Caldicott Guardians, champions for data protection in the NHS and social care, have a packed agenda for 2004 and a new group, the UK Council of Caldicott Guardians, to support them. E-Health Insider talked to the NHS Information Authority’s guardian, DrJanine Brooks, who is helping to set up the council . Speaking […]
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Reader Comment: ‘NPfIT Viewed from Scotland’
The following ‘reader comment’ was supplied in response to recent E-Health Insider reports on the development of the National Programme for IT. The author is a consultant anaesthetist at a leading Scottish acute trust, who leads on IT issues locally. There is much about the current national programme procurements and what they entail, and the machinations […]
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Wirral Connects to Online Bed Vacancy Service
Wirral residents and care homes are set to benefit from a new online service designed to simplify the process of locating suitable residential care beds and help reduce one of the causes of bed blocking in hospitals. The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is set to begin using an online and email bed vacancy service, called […]
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