NHS chief exec pledges to help resolve CRS issues
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust that they can count on his full support to help resolve the problems they encountered after going live in April with a Cerner Care Records System provided by Fujitsu. In April 79 members of staff from the trust signed a letter outlining their frustrations at the Millennium […]
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NHS chief exec pledges to help resolve CRS issues
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust that they can count on his full support in resolving the problems they encountered in April after going live with the Millennium Care Records System provided by Fujitsu. In April 79 members of staff from the trust signed a letter outlining their frustrations […]
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NPfIT local ownership programme gets put back
Plans for strategic health authorities to take local ownership for shaping and delivering the NHS IT programme have become bogged down due to central wrangling and may not not be implemented before the summer. NHS Connecting for Health and England’s ten SHAs are continuing to work through the details of the ‘local ownership programme’ (NLOP) […]
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Funding for data accreditation must be a priority
Strategic health authorities have been instructed to make support for GP practice data accreditation a priority, the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate heard after a GP raised problems about funding for the initiative. Dr Mary Hawking, a GP in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, told the conference that Bedfordshire had 93 practices but no facilitators from the data […]
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Funding axed for ambulance IT system
Urgent talks are underway to save a computerised capacity and activity monitoring system (CAMS) used to direct ambulances to hospitals best placed to deal with patients after PCTs in the East of England SHA withdrew their funding. The East Anglian Ambulance Trust and acute trusts across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire are in last minute talks […]
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns
A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting difficulties with the system "could have an impact on all remaining Cluster R0 go-live dates". The trust board paper seen by EHI warns that should delays to the availability of a system that meets requirements […]
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Worskshops aim to boost C+B uptake
The Department of Health is to hold a workshop in every strategic health authority in England in an attempt to boost uptake of Choose and Book. The ten sessions, to be held in January and early February next year, will include presentations from the national Choose and Book team and high performing local health communities […]
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Concern over slow progress in acute sector
A board paper written for the largest NHS trust in England says that its region of the National Programme for IT does not have a roadmap for delivering an electronic care record. The report, submitted to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, by director of informatics, Brian Derry and his deputy, Alastair Cartwright, in October says: […]
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Hospitals told not to use C+B to manage demand
Hospitals that have been using Choose and Book to manage demand by withholding appointments slots have been ordered to stop doing so by their strategic health authority for the second time in less than two months. South East Coast SHA has told its hospitals and primary care trusts that it does not want routine patients […]
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Southern SHAs to pilot greater local ownership of NPfIT
The three strategic health authorities in the south of England are piloting a new model of governance for the National Programme for IT that will shift responsibilities from NHS Connecting for Health at the centre to the local NHS. The move is partly as a result of recommendations from the National Audit Office earlier this […]
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