Stoke Mandeville switches on Millennium
Stoke Mandeville hospital has become the latest hospital site to go-live with the Cerner Millennium patient administration and clinical software under the £12.4bn NHS IT programme. The software supplied by Cerner was implemented by Fujitsu, the local service provider for the South of England. The trust has gone live with the release 0 version of the […]
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NHS Scotland rolls out document management
All NHS boards in Scotland are to use Version One’s document management and imaging software, as part of a drive to achieve shared services throughout NHSScotland, with the aim of achieving £3m annual savings. Systems are being implemented in five consortia groups covering all 22 NHS boards, which will integrate Version One’s software into existing […]
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Peterborough choose McKesson for HR and Payroll
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected McKesson Shared Services to support its HR and Payroll functions. Using McKesson Shared Services will mean they have first-line support for all administration tasks associated with the day-to-day functions of HR and Payroll using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR), which McKesson provides under a national […]
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McKesson says ESR job done
As the NHS Electronic Staff Record nears completion, E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma speaks to Charmaine McDonald, MD of McKesson UK, the company behind the project.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 08.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 8 February 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, and events. Supplier news COA wins £3.6m NHSScotland deal COA Solutions has won a £3.6m contract to supply all 22 Scottish health boards with a comprehensive portfolio of financial, procurement support, business intelligence and document management software […]
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Atos to benchmark back-office services
Atos Consulting, the business consulting arm of Atos Origin, is working with NHS organisations to benchmark their back-office services. The deal comes as the NHS Shared Services Development Network reached an agreement with Atos Consulting to provide a 12 month programme covering the full scope of back-office services, including ICT, HR and finance, to its […]
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NHS leading public sector on shared services
A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared services in the public sector, even though only a fifth of NHS trusts have widely adopted the financial concept. The Cabinet Office is currently pushing for the adoption of shared services across government to deliver […]
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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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NHS is major IT investor in public sector
The government spent more that £12billion on IT across the public sector in 2005/06, with the NHS and Connecting for Health amongst the biggest investors, according to figures published in the Transformational Government annual report for 2006. The figures show that the NHS in England spent £1.4billion, which did not include the £1.1bn spent by […]
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Plymouth opts for Ensemble integration platform
Plymouth ICT Shared Services is replacing its current integration platform with InterSystems Ensemble, it was announced today. Plymouth’s director of ICT, Nick Thomas, said, “This investment will enable the community to fully embrace the central integrated solutions provided by the National Programme for IT [NPfIT], while maintaining and enhancing the benefits to clinicians delivered by […]
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