GPs urged to accept ETP software
GPs are to be asked to accept software for electronic transmission of prescriptions as soon as possible as part of a Department of Health (DH) drive for rapid adoption of the service. John Bacon, the DH’s Group Director of Health and Social Care Delivery, and the senior responsible officer for the National Programme for IT, […]
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Liverpool trust rejects delayed PACS
A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of a Connecting for Health (CfH) Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), due to delays and technical problems with the system. Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust told E-Health Insider that it had taken […]
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PCT forced to revert to paper systems
A primary care trust has been forced to abandon its planned move to a Connecting for Health community patient administration system after problems with the migration left staff working from paper records for ten days. An e-mail seen by EHI Primary Care reveals that Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth PCT in Staffordshire faced insurmountable problems migrating from […]
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NHS trusts save £4.5m on IT through e-commerce
A group of NHS trusts have predicted that they will savings of nearly 30% on IT hardware by using an online auction. Using the online auction some 137 NHS trusts, organised into six regional consortia, were able to save nearly a third off all the desktops and laptops they needed over the next 18-months. Projected […]
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James Paget gets outsider PACS
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust in Norfolk has become the first hospital trust in England to go live with an out-of-cluster PACS system – one supplied by a local service provider from outside the trust’s region. Although the trust sits within the Eastern region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), last Thursday it […]
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Every PCT to miss Choose and Book target
The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be in a position to meet its next Choose and Book target and is relying on paper solutions to deliver its flagship policy on choice at referral. Just over 6,000 bookings have been made through Choose […]
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Predictive risk software launched for NHS
New predictive risk software which will provide the NHS with an ‘early warning’ system to help some patients avoid hospital admission was launched today by the Department of Health. The software, first reported by EHI Primary Care in July, uses a wide range of patient information to work out who is most at risk. […]
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Patient-based web mapping system piloted
A mapping and feedback system that allows patients to flag up problems with their journey through the NHS system is being tested in a GP’s surgery in Whitechapel, east London. The web-based system, called Journeys, was developed by healthcare design consultancy, Thinkpublic. It allows patients to document their experiences throughout their journey through the NHS […]
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PCTs await C+B incentive payment decisions
A straw poll taken by EHI Primary Care has revealed an enthusiastic take-up among PCTs of the Department of Health’s (DH) offer of £6000 per practice incentive payments for preparation work on Choose and Book. Dorset & Somerset SHA told EHIPC that all nine of its primary care trusts have applied for the incentive money. "It 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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